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Pathways Professional Counseling

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On September 25, 2015, an employee's unencrypted, password-protected laptop was stolen from his vehicle. The device contained PHI of 985 patients including names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, clinical diagnoses, financial information, email addresses, physician information, health insurance, treatment, and medication information. Pathways Professional Counseling (AL) reported the breach to HHS on 2015-11-24, affecting 986 individuals. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions including encryption, employee retraining, policy revisions, and employee sanction.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified9 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.Confirmed986 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: Nov 24, 2015
Raw hash: e8b85d8d7f0c0429396df3eb648bcb59c28614c739303979214ceb5a01aacad1

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Pathways Professional Counseling
norm: pathways professional counseling
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Pathways Professional Counseling
norm: pathways professional counseling
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Sep 25, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 986
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTFINANCIAL
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action assurances obtained

Compliance

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 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: Sep 25, 2015
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Sep 25, 2015 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.