FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareKnowledge AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedTargetedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

GEO Care, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 19, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

710

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for GEO Care, LLC →

GEO Care, LLC (FL) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-07-19 a Theft/insider-misuse breach affecting 710 individuals. An employee inappropriately accessed patient admission reports at South Florida State Hospital and provided them without authorization to a third party (the employee's cousin), who then attempted to sell the reports illegally. PHI exposed included names, dates of birth, SSNs, admission/discharge dates, and unit names, stored on Desktop Computer. The employee was terminated and criminally indicted. OCR confirmed corrective actions were completed.

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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

Jul 19, 2013

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed710 affectedView incident

Name: GEO Care, LLC
norm: geo care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: GEO Care, LLC
norm: geo care
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 710nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action plan completed; OCR obtained assurances of completion
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, media, and posted substitute notice on website
Offered identity theft protection to affected individuals
Terminated the responsible staff member
Staff member criminally indicted
Limited use of full social security numbers
Restricted access to documents containing full SSNs
Implemented weekly audits of workforce members accessing documents with full SSNs
Updated privacy and security policies and procedures
Revised employee access policies for ePHI based on job title and function
Provided retraining to employees on access and disclosure of PHI
Changes made: Restricted document access controls
Weekly SSN-access audits implemented
Privacy and security policy overhaul
Role-based access controls for ePHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Jul 19, 2013
Raw hash: aa6f9957d651bdf4f55d09f1f29da74192f7c3a7a8bf31b8c78d1ff63ae63589

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Reporting entityGEO Care, LLC

Victim entityGEO Care, LLC

IncidentInsider

Stated responseNotified HHS, media, and posted substitute notice on website

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing