TENNESSEEPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Blount Memorial Hospital, Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 17, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

27,799

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Blount Memorial Hospital, Inc →

Blount Memorial Hospital, Inc (TN) reported to HHS OCR on 2012-10-17 that a laptop stolen from a workforce member's home exposed ePHI of 27,799 individuals. Breached information included demographic, health, and financial data stored on a laptop. The CE notified affected individuals, HHS, and media; encrypted all laptops; and revised HIPAA policies and training. OCR provided technical assistance on security incident procedures and risk management.

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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

Oct 17, 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.Confirmed27,799 affectedView incident

Name: Blount Memorial Hospital, Inc
norm: blount memorial hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Blount Memorial Hospital, Inc
norm: blount memorial hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 27,799nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; technical assistance provided regarding security incident procedures and risk management plan; OCR reviewed revised HIPAA policies and procedures.

During the incident: Notified affected individuals, HHS, and media
Reviewed privacy and security policies and procedures
Encrypted all laptops
Improved HIPAA training
Changes made: Full laptop encryption fleet-wide
Revised HIPAA policies and procedures created in response to breach
Enhanced HIPAA security training for workforce
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: Oct 17, 2012
Raw hash: 389f45abb88cbcc374bca91325f8555f5ad3ea1e691b40864cd8c55bceb96235

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Reporting entityBlount Memorial Hospital, Inc

Victim entityBlount Memorial Hospital, Inc

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals, HHS, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing