GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareTheftPrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

DeKalb Medical Center, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 15, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

7,500

Confidence

96%

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DeKalb Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a DeKalb Medical Hillandale reported to HHS on 2011-07-15 a Theft affecting 7,500 individuals; breached information was located on Paper/Films. An insider employee took PHI off premises over approximately three months for identity theft purposes, impermissibly accessing names, dates of birth, medical record/account numbers, admission/visit dates, diagnoses, treating physicians, and in some cases SSNs. The employee was terminated; the CE implemented a corrective action plan and retraining. OCR confirmed appropriate notifications and corrective steps.

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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 15, 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.Confirmed7,500 affectedView incident

Name: DeKalb Medical Center, Inc.
norm: dekalb medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: DeKalb Medical Center, Inc.
norm: dekalb medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: DeKalb Medical Center, Inc.dba oflegal entity
DeKalb Medical Hillandaledba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,500nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical MediumT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation confirmed appropriate notifications and corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified affected individuals, HHS, and media
Offered one year of enhanced credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Terminated the employee responsible for the breach
Changes made: Initiated corrective action plan
Revised and created policies and procedures to prevent future incidents
Retrained staff on HIPAA policies and procedures
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 15, 2011
Raw hash: 1b70fa1c39260031dd97a1a0b29901a3f53428b5ae35a49d8fc2d024f0c7f139

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Reporting entityDeKalb Medical Center, Inc.

Victim entityDeKalb Medical Center, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals, HHS, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing