NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Kpmg LLP

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 26, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

956

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Kpmg LLP →2 incidents on file

KPMG LLP (Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2010-08-26 a Theft affecting 956 individuals on behalf of covered entity Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. An employee lost an unencrypted USB drive containing ePHI (names and clinical information). OCR investigated; KPMG encrypted all relevant equipment and devices, reprimanded and retrained the employee, and retrained all staff. OCR verified a proper BA agreement was in place restricting PHI use and requiring safeguarding.

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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 26, 2010

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.Confirmed956 affectedView incident

Name: Kpmg LLP
norm: kpmg
Domain: kpmg.com

Name: Kpmg LLP
norm: kpmg
Domain: kpmg.com
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 956nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: OtherPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation opened; OCR verified BA agreement in place
Third party: via KPMG LLPbusiness associate

During the incident: BA conducted search of the area upon discovery
CE provided breach notification to HHS, media, and affected individuals
BA installed and implemented encryption software on electronic equipment and devices
BA encrypted and password protected all equipment and devices containing CE data
BA reprimanded and retrained the responsible employee
BA retrained all employees on safeguarding ePHI
Changes made: Encryption software deployed to all BA electronic equipment and devices
Password protection applied to all devices that could contain CE data
Employee retraining on ePHI safeguarding
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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: Aug 26, 2010
Raw hash: b66e8b029fd4fa28c31510e24456959006dcc0a12421f8218aa56f52b456e5ee

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Reporting entityKpmg LLP

Victim entityKpmg LLP

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA conducted search of the area upon discovery

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing