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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.

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 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.Confirmed5,000 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.