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TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

Methodist Charlton Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 5, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

1,500

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Methodist Charlton Medical Center →

Methodist Charlton Medical Center reported to HHS on 2011-05-05 a theft affecting 1500 individuals. An unencrypted laptop containing demographic and clinical data for 1,523 patients was stolen from a locked office. In response, the center filed a police report, notified patients and the media, expanded its encryption policy, and implemented additional physical safeguards.

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

May 5, 2011

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.Confirmed1,500 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.