INDIANAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
South Bend Orthopaedic Associates Inc
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Full breach record for South Bend Orthopaedic Associates Inc →South Bend Orthopaedic Associates Inc (IN) reported to HHS on 2017-08-18 a Theft affecting 1,272 individuals. On July 22, 2017, an unencrypted laptop stolen from an employee's car exposed patients' names, genders, dates of birth, referring physicians, EMG waveforms, and dates of tests. The CE reported to police, notified affected individuals and media, encrypted all ePHI devices, and implemented updated mobile device policies and workforce training following an OCR investigation.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified27 days discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,272 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 18, 2017
- Raw hash
- 98997994a27b3aa1293bd19f44abffa0dfe183c5962957557284c4602cda3738
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- South Bend Orthopaedic Associates Incnorm: south bend orthopaedic associates
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- South Bend Orthopaedic Associates Incnorm: south bend orthopaedic associates
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 22, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,272
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation; CE provided documented assurances of corrective actions
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jul 22, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.