CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Huntington Medical Research Institutes

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 20, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

4,300

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Huntington Medical Research Institutes →

Huntington Medical Research Institutes reported to HHS on 2015-10-20 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4300 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop, Other Portable Electronic Device. A workforce member took patient PHI on external hard drives upon termination. CE recovered data, engaged forensic experts, and implemented encryption and risk analysis.

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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 20, 2015

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.Confirmed4,300 affectedView incident

Name: Huntington Medical Research Institutes
norm: huntington medical research institutes
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Huntington Medical Research Institutes
norm: huntington medical research institutes
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,300nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
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: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified OCRResponded to OCR’s investigation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Worked with the workforce member’s counsel to recover the PHI in a secure manner
Engaged a forensic expert to confirm that all PHI was recovered
Provided substitute notice, notice to the media, and notice to OCR
Reassigned privacy and security responsibilities
Changes made: Improved safeguards by encrypting all computer workstations
Improved safeguards by encrypting phones that access PHI
Developed a comprehensive enterprise-wide risk analysis report and corresponding risk management plan
Began considering the need to augment its privacy and security staff
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 20, 2015
Raw hash: b9bf94bbf5e3c1ed105a936557920cbf80a3c41e33c8fb08653b412ec3eb5460

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Reporting entityHuntington Medical Research Institutes

Victim entityHuntington Medical Research Institutes

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseWorked with the workforce member’s counsel to recover the PHI in a secure manner

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing