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Visiting Nurse Service Association of Schenectady County

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 12, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

535

Confidence

97%
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Visiting Nurse Service Association of Schenectady County reported to HHS OCR on 2010-11-12 a Theft affecting 535 individuals. An encrypted laptop containing ePHI (names, addresses, dates of birth) was stolen from the covered entity. A police report was filed. Following OCR's investigation, the staff member's account was disabled, they were counseled and retrained, and the CE adopted laptop security policies with staff-wide training.

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

Nov 12, 2010

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.Confirmed535 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.