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Karmanos Cancer Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 10, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

2,808

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Karmanos Cancer Center →

Karmanos Cancer Center reported to HHS on 2016-03-10 a Loss affecting 2808 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. The covered entity lost an unencrypted flash drive containing PHI. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring. Following the breach, the CE retrained staff, published an article in its newsletter about encryption, and audited its business associate agreements.

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

Mar 10, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,808 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.