NEW JERSEYPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

Med Assets

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 8, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

8,795

Confidence

96%

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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.

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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

Aug 8, 2011

Filed

—

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.Confirmed8,795 affectedView incident

Name: Med Assets
norm: med assets

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,795nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: OtherPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Business associate
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

During the incident: Filed police report upon discovery of breach
Provided breach notification to HHS, media, and affected individuals
Posted substitute notification on Clara Maass Medical Center website
Changes made: BA retrained the employee involved in the breach
Instructed all employees to stop using external storage devices containing ePHI
Recalled and destroyed all unencrypted external hard drives containing ePHI
Encrypted external hard drives
Installed new software system to monitor, control, and encrypt data leaving BA computers
Hired an IT security analyst to supplement the BA security program
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: Aug 8, 2011
Raw hash: 221900b498cd419ab9d279aed501d669658d40bc20713b972abe36615d171fdb

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Reporting entityMed Assets

Victim entityMed Assets

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseFiled police report upon discovery of breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing