NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

NYU Hospitals Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 7, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

2,563

Confidence

96%

NYU Hospitals Center (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2010-07-07 that an unencrypted USB drive containing ePHI of 2,563 individuals was misplaced (reported internally as a possible theft). The ePHI included names, medical record numbers, ages, genders, procedures, physician names, anesthesia types, and recovery room timestamps. Following OCR's investigation, the CE halted unencrypted USB use, installed DLP software, updated physical security, purchased encrypted USB drives, revised its mobile device policy, and retrained all workforce members. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device.

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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 7, 2010

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.Confirmed2,563 affectedView incident

Name: NYU Hospitals Center
Domain: nyulangone.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: NYU Hospitals Center
Domain: nyulangone.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,563nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; remediation actions required
Initial access: removable_media

During the incident: Reported incident to internal security
Conducted thorough search of the perimeter
Notified HHS, media, and affected individuals
Stopped using USB drives and local desktop computers for data storage
Updated physical security in the recovery room
Installed data loss prevention software to monitor, block, or encrypt mobile media
Purchased encrypted USB drives for authorized workforce members
Revised mobile device and portable storage media policy
Retrained all workforce members on updated policies
Changes made: Ceased use of unencrypted USB drives and local desktop computers for ePHI storage
Deployed data loss prevention (DLP) software for mobile media
Upgraded physical security in recovery room
Deployed encrypted USB drives for authorized users
Policy revision and workforce retraining on mobile device/portable storage media
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 7, 2010
Raw hash: ed6abb2dbfb84978a34042c4bb25f1a317640b8844407a60586636c99ac8ea26

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Reporting entityNYU Hospitals Center

Victim entityNYU Hospitals Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseReported incident to internal security

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing