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NEW JERSEYPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Chilton Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 15, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

4,600

Confidence

98%
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Chilton Medical Center (NJ) reported to HHS on 2017-12-15 a Theft affecting 4,600 individuals. An employee removed a computer hard drive containing PHI — including patients' names, addresses, dates of birth, medications, treatment information, and medical record numbers — and sold it on the internet. The CE notified the Morris County NJ Prosecutor's Office and FBI, terminated the employee, revised electronic-asset management policies, improved physical security, and implemented new hard drive decommissioning procedures. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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 15, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,600 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.