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NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

Professional Transcription Company Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 24, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

1,744

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Professional Transcription Company Inc. →

Professional Transcription Company, Inc., a business associate, reported to HHS on 2010-11-24 a breach affecting 1,744 individuals. The breach was categorized as a Theft and the breached information was located on a Network Server. According to the report, the business associate posted electronic protected health information (including names, dates of birth, and diagnoses) on a website portal. In response, the server was shut down and Google was contacted to block the files. The company retrained its employees on security policies.

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

Nov 24, 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.Confirmed1,744 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.