CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Stanford School of Medicine & LP Children Hosp, Privacy Manager Breach

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 9, 2013

Filed

Jan 23, 2013

To disclose

14 days

Affected

56,500

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Stanford School of Medicine (SOM) and Stanford Children's Hospital (SCH, formerly Lucile Packard Children's Hospital) reported to HHS on 2013-01-23 a Theft affecting 56,500 individuals. On January 9, 2013, a SOM workforce member's password-protected but unencrypted laptop was stolen from their vehicle. The ePHI included demographic and clinical information related to SCH patient care and SOM research. No evidence of unauthorized access was found. Breached information located on Laptop.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time14 days 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 days

Jan 9, 2013

Begins

Jan 9, 2013

Discovered

Jan 23, 2013

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_a712e8d88182762a2013-01-18 · +5dVerified

Name: Stanford School of Medicine & LP Children Hosp, Privacy Manager Breach
norm: Stanford School of Medicine & Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Domain: stanford.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Stanford School of Medicine & LP Children Hosp, Privacy Manager Breach
norm: Stanford School of Medicine & Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Domain: stanford.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Jan 9, 2013
Breach occurred: Jan 9, 2013
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 56,500nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted following breach notificationCE notified HHS per HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement
Notified affected individuals
Offered identity protection services to affected individuals
Established a call center to assist affected individuals
Submitted notification to media and HHS
Sanctioned workforce member for violating HIPAA policies
Retrained workforce members on data security policies
SCH implemented enhanced administrative and technical safeguards for secure email communications
Initiated plans to implement an improved risk management process
Changes made: Enhanced administrative and technical safeguards for email security
Workforce retraining on data security policies
HIPAA sanctions applied to responsible workforce member
Improved risk management process initiated
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS 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: Jan 9, 2013
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 9, 2013
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 9, 2013 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 9, 2013 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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California State AGJan 18 · first

HHS OCR+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 18 (CA), last Jan 23 (CA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Jan 23, 2013
Raw hash: d18a34c37a903947d3b3df650a2c45db4f61c734363424df1f53fe8e3cac53bc

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStanford School of Medicine & LP Children Hosp, Privacy Manager Breach

Victim entityStanford School of Medicine & LP Children Hosp, Privacy Manager Breach

Incidentdiscovered Jan 9, 2013

Stated responseContacted law enforcement

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing