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Med Assets

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MedAssets (NJ), a business associate of Clara Maass Medical Center, reported to HHS on 2011-08-08 a theft of an unencrypted hard drive affecting 8,795 individuals. The stolen device, classified as Other/Other Portable Electronic Device, contained ePHI including names, dates of birth, SSNs, account numbers, medical record numbers, charges, payment info, admission/discharge dates, and health insurance information. OCR investigated; remediation included employee retraining, destruction of unencrypted drives, encryption of all external media, and deployment of data-loss-prevention software.

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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed8,795 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 8, 2011
Raw hash: 221900b498cd419ab9d279aed501d669658d40bc20713b972abe36615d171fdb

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Med Assets
norm: med assets

Victim entity

Name: Med Assets
norm: med assets
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,795
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Breach notification submitted to HHS/OCROCR conducted investigationOCR verified proper Business Associate Agreement was in place
Third party: via MedAssetsbusiness associate

Compliance

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

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.