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Lawrence General Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 5, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

2,071

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Lawrence General Hospital →4 incidents on file

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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 5, 2015

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,071 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.