MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Lawrence General Hospital
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Full breach record for Lawrence General Hospital →Lawrence General Hospital (Lawrence, MA) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-08-05 a Loss affecting 2,071 individuals. A portable thumb drive containing patient names, laboratory testing codes, and slide identification numbers went missing following a theft in the hospital laboratory. The drive was unencrypted and not password-protected. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Remediation included disabling unencrypted USB thumb drive use and implementing new media-receipt monitoring procedures. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action completion.
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.Confirmed2,071 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
- Aug 5, 2015
- Raw hash
- afc139a3f54c30863509e0c2fadab8d5b1e4044c6b815dd117180d3ebbb7f829
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Lawrence General Hospitalnorm: lawrence general hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Lawrence General Hospitalnorm: lawrence general hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,071
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.
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.