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MICHIGANPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Detroit Medical Center - Harper University Hospital

bd_41a5cca4c95b7204 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 13, 2017

To disclose

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Affected

1,529

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Detroit Medical Center - Harper University Hospital →2 incidents on file

Detroit Medical Center reported to HHS on 2017-07-13 a Theft affecting 1,529 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer, Paper/Films. An employee impermissibly disclosed PHI via unsecured text messages containing images of EHR content and removed printed paper copies. The breach involved names, dates of birth, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The employee was sanctioned and the incident referred to law enforcement.

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

Jul 13, 2017

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.Confirmed1,529 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.