NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

elizabeth ortof MD

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

5,000

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for elizabeth ortof MD →

Dr. Elizabeth Ortof MD (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-09-23 a laptop theft from her office affecting 5,000 individuals. The stolen laptop contained ePHI including names, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. OCR subsequently closed its investigation upon determining that Dr. Ortof does not qualify as a covered entity under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Breached information located on Laptop.

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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

Sep 23, 2021

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.Confirmed5,000 affectedView incident

Name: elizabeth ortof MD
norm: elizabeth ortof md
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: elizabeth ortof MD
norm: elizabeth ortof md
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR investigation opened and subsequently closed; OCR determined Dr. Ortof is not a covered entity as defined by the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

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: Sep 23, 2021
Raw hash: 9c7f4a0df206d416563c0ac68c2bfe5d18ceaf1ebc720fed523933ac0a820ed4

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Reporting entityelizabeth ortof MD

Victim entityelizabeth ortof MD

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing