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VIRGINIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)PHIMedium

Valley Plastic Surgery, P.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 13, 2012

To disclose

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Affected

4,873

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Valley Plastic Surgery, P.C. →

Valley Plastic Surgery, P.C. reported to HHS on 2012-09-13 a Theft affecting 4873 individuals. The breach involved an unencrypted backup hard drive stolen from a physician's car. The compromised information included names, clinic notes, dates of birth, and patient photos. In response, the entity filed a police report, updated HIPAA policies, retrained staff, and contracted with a third party for encrypted record storage.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 13, 2012

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,873 affectedView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.