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FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Rotech Healthcare Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 11, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

957

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Rotech Healthcare Inc. →2 incidents on file

Rotech Healthcare Inc. reported to HHS on August 11, 2016, an unauthorized disclosure incident affecting 957 patients. Employees printed medical records from the electronic medical records system and removed them from the office. The compromised information included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers. The breach involved physical paper records which were later recovered by the Secret Service.

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 11, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGAug 10 · first
HHS OCR+1d · this page

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.