CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPA
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Full breach record for SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPA →On April 14, 2013, a SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPA employee's laptop was stolen from her vehicle at her home. The laptop contained PHI of 3,164 individuals, including names, member IDs, dates of service, reasons for visits, and procedure codes. The laptop was password protected but unencrypted. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented corrective actions including encrypting all computers and improving physical security.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,164 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- May 24, 2013
- Raw hash
- 1cf73d01337069baa28a37dba96d45608a0fa5b4124977ca34696072bc4350e9
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPAnorm: synermed inland valleys ipa
Victim entity
- Name
- SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPAnorm: synermed inland valleys ipa
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 14, 2013
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 3,164
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(40 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Apr 14, 2013→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.