FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Broward Health Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 17, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

960

Confidence

96%

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Broward Health Medical Center (FL) reported to HHS on 2013-10-17 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 960 individuals. An employee removed paper patient facesheets from the premises; the documents were subsequently stolen from the employee's home by a visitor. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, SSNs, insurance information, reasons for visits, employers, and emergency contacts. The employee is no longer employed by the CE. Workforce was retrained. OCR provided technical assistance and obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

Oct 17, 2013

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.Confirmed960 affectedView incident

Name: Broward Health Medical Center
norm: broward health medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Broward Health Medical Center
norm: broward health medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 960nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding procedures for responding to and reporting privacy incidentsOCR provided technical assistance on obligations under the Breach Notification Rule including law enforcement delay proceduresOCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and media
Employee responsible for incident is no longer employed by the covered entity
Workforce re-trained to reinforce existing policies prohibiting removal of PHI from facility
Changes made: Re-training of workforce on PHI removal policies
Policies prohibiting removal of PHI from facility were already in place at time of breach
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: Oct 17, 2013
Raw hash: 62910d7ebc98182c2946c56fc075ae6dbe3f21a82bbdfe4037dbc6c832d27887

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Reporting entityBroward Health Medical Center

Victim entityBroward Health Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing