KENTUCKYPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Associates In EyeCare, P.S.C.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 16, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

971

Confidence

97%

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Associates in EyeCare, P.S.C. (Kentucky) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-05-16 a physical theft affecting 971 individuals. An office was broken into and two laptop computers and an external hard drive were stolen. PHI involved included patients' names, internal account numbers, optical images, technical image information, and dates of birth. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented remediation including new locks, laptop encryption, cloud storage migration, and revised security policies. OCR obtained assurances of employee training.

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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

May 16, 2016

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.Confirmed971 affectedView incident

Name: Associates In EyeCare, P.S.C.
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Associates In EyeCare, P.S.C.
norm: associates in eyecare psc
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 971nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: LaptopPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE will train its employees on its updated policies.

During the incident: Changed exterior locks on clinic doors
Revised policies for moving laptops between offices
Began saving all patient information to the cloud
Equipped new laptop with encryption and physical security
Revised security policies
Employee training on updated policies (per OCR assurances)
Changes made: Physical security improvements to office entry points
Laptop encryption deployed
Policy and procedure updates for portable device handling
Cloud storage migration for patient data
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.

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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: May 16, 2016
Raw hash: 73519ffdd9b8bf995a3a78f82e204bba48ea08d22fb0a96beec7246778ce3eb0

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Reporting entityAssociates In EyeCare, P.S.C.

Victim entityAssociates In EyeCare, P.S.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseChanged exterior locks on clinic doors

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing