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NEW JERSEYPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Business Associate (HIPAA)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)CriticalResolved

GRM Information Management Services

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 11, 2011

To disclose

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Affected

1,700,000

Confidence

92%
Full breach record for GRM Information Management Services →2 incidents on file

Unencrypted clinical system backup tapes containing ePHI of 1,700,000 individuals were stolen from an unlocked vehicle belonging to an employee of GRM Information Management Services, a business associate of the covered entity. ePHI included names, MRNs, SSNs, addresses, phone numbers, health plan numbers, dates of birth/admission/treatment/discharge/death, mother's name, next of kin, and clinical information (diagnoses, treatment, prognosis, lab results, medications). The covered entity filed a police report, notified HHS, media, and affected individuals, terminated the BA agreement, and installed encryption software on backup media following OCR's investigation. Incident occurred prior to the September 23, 2013 HIPAA Omnibus compliance date.

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

Feb 11, 2011

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.Confirmed1,700,000 affectedView incident

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.