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

Southern Perioperative Services, P.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 30, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

2,000

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Southern Perioperative Services, P.C. →

Southern Perioperative Services, P.C. (AL) reported to HHS on 2010-12-30 a Theft affecting 2,000 individuals. A bag containing a CD-ROM was stolen from a physician's vehicle. The CD-ROM held names, dates of birth, SSNs, medical histories, and treatment information of approximately 2,046 individuals. The CE filed a police report, notified affected individuals and media, sanctioned/retrained the physician, and implemented organization-wide Privacy and Security Rule improvements. OCR's investigation led to substitute notification in a local paper.

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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

Dec 30, 2010

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.Confirmed2,000 affectedView incident

Name: Southern Perioperative Services, P.C.
norm: southern perioperative
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Southern Perioperative Services, P.C.
norm: southern perioperative
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: OtherPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; covered entity posted substitute notification in local paper and confirmed corrective action steps taken.

During the incident: Filed police report
Provided breach notification to affected individuals, HHS, and the media
Sanctioned and retrained the physician whose bag was stolen
Implemented organization-wide improvements to Privacy and Security Rule compliance
Posted substitute notification in local paper at OCR's direction
Changes made: Organization-wide compliance improvements to HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Retraining of implicated physician
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: Dec 30, 2010
Raw hash: c1170bf4308fe671335f3c7f693194ee2bbcfa5ca7f41c2152bb3b90fccd6750

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Reporting entitySouthern Perioperative Services, P.C.

Victim entitySouthern Perioperative Services, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseFiled police report

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing