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MICHIGANPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jan 15, 2010

To disclose

Affected

10,000

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids, Inc.

Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids, Inc. reported to HHS OCR on 2010-01-15 a Theft affecting approximately 10,000 individuals. On December 15, 2009, a safe was stolen from Goodwill's off-site facility containing five unencrypted backup tapes. PHI involved included full names, addresses, dates of birth, reasons for referral, dates of service, miscellaneous demographics, and in some cases Social Security numbers. Breached information located on Other (backup tapes). The entity relocated tape storage to a Goodwill-controlled site with a commercial grade safe and achieved compliance prior to OCR's formal investigation.

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

Dec 15, 2009

Begins

Jan 15, 2010

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed10,000 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.