VERMONTPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
North Country Hospital and Health Center, Inc
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Full breach record for North Country Hospital and Health Center, Inc →North Country Hospital and Health Center, Inc. (VT) reported to HHS on 2013-10-15 a Theft affecting 550 individuals. A former employee retained an unencrypted retired laptop following termination on July 15, 2013. PHI exposed included electronically signed physician orders, patient names, demographic information, and clinical diagnoses. Breached information located on a Laptop. OCR investigated; the CE implemented disk encryption, revised policies, and added a termination checklist.
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.Confirmed550 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
- Oct 15, 2013
- Raw hash
- 699bfbc06adb91743d21da36d34dd3d9c09324324f0adb22202b0909795c39bc
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- North Country Hospital and Health Center, Incnorm: north country hospital and health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- North Country Hospital and Health Center, Incnorm: north country hospital and health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 550
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR investigation conducted; technical assistance provided regarding risk analysis
- Initial access
- insider_action
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.