FLORIDAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

Heartland Pathology Associates, P.A.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 15, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

1,175

Confidence

68%

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Heartland Pathology Associates, P.A. reported to HHS on 2012-08-15 a Theft affecting 1175 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A past business associate, Medical Business Service, Inc., suffered a breach when an employee downloaded PHI to a portable drive and provided it to a third party.

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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

Aug 15, 2012

Filed

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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.Confirmed1,175 affectedView incident

Name: Heartland Pathology Associates, P.A.
norm: heartland pathology associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Heartland Pathology Associates, P.A.
norm: heartland pathology associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,175nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE has implemented the corrective actions
Third party: via Medical Business Service, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Sent breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notification online
Contracted with Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center for annual HIPAA training
Used a computer maintained and monitored by the Hospital’s information technology department
Received assurances that PHI maintained by its BA was destroyed
Changes made: Implemented corrective actions as required by OCR
Contracted for annual HIPAA training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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: Aug 15, 2012
Raw hash: 8ee74af69878c5435961a371c094c075547ad361219de9c0f952a30b4e830b89

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Reporting entityHeartland Pathology Associates, P.A.

Victim entityHeartland Pathology Associates, P.A.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSent breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing