NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

The Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 20, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

2,700

Confidence

50%

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The Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center reported to HHS on 2013-07-20 a Loss affecting 2700 individuals. The breach occurred when a staff pharmacist lost an unencrypted USB external hard drive containing patient information. Breached information was located on an Other Portable Electronic Device.

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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

Jul 20, 2013

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,700 affectedView incident

Name: The Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center
norm: the brookdale hospital and medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center
norm: the brookdale hospital and medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,700nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance

Changes made: Disabled all USB ports in all of its computers
Established a policy on obtaining an encrypted USB external hard drive from its IT department
Retrained its pharmacist staff
Review and revise its policies and procedures and training materials regarding reporting breach incidents and the usage of mobile and portable devices by its staff members
Perform a thorough and accurate enterprise wide risk analysis
Establish a Risk Management Plan that addresses the threats and vulnerabilities identified by the risk analysis
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: Jul 20, 2013
Raw hash: 01074d5a845f3b132c00a2bdc0a99d7ca9e79689df953dab207c7a6939ac7d6e

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Reporting entityThe Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center

Victim entityThe Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseDisabled all USB ports in all of its computers

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing