DisclosureLens
ARIZONAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Government IDHigh

LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 1, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

2,773

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS →5 incidents on file

Laboratory Corporation of America reported to HHS on 2010-04-01 a theft affecting 2773 individuals. An external hard drive containing electronic protected health information was stolen. The breached information included names, medical record numbers, dates of birth, lab test data, and some Social Security numbers. In response, the company has initiated a project to encrypt external hard drives and other media.

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

Apr 1, 2010

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.Confirmed2,773 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.