FEDERALPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved

LifeGas

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LifeGas, a business associate of covered entity American Home Patient Inc., reported to HHS on 2013-02-04 a Theft affecting 1,103 individuals. On October 11, 2012, an employee lost or misplaced an unencrypted laptop containing ePHI (names, addresses, oxygen supply indicator) for 1,103 clients across 13 states. A simultaneously misplaced thumb drive was confirmed to contain no PHI. The CE investigated, notified HHS and affected individuals, and renegotiated the BA agreement with stricter breach notification timeframe provisions. OCR confirmed completion of corrective actions.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified17 weeks 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.Confirmed1,103 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: Feb 4, 2013
Raw hash: 3ca2b6db9dadc7d28dba3ec243f208f8d4b5a5697e8471df6376f5bd9f0e1ee2

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: LifeGas
norm: lifegas

Victim entity

Name: LifeGas
norm: lifegas
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Oct 11, 2012
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,103
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted; OCR obtained assurances CE completed corrective actions
Third party: via LifeGas (Business Associate of American Home Patient Inc.)business associate

Compliance

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(116 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: Oct 11, 2012
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Oct 11, 2012 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.