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LSU Healthcare Network

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 4, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

2,200

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for LSU Healthcare Network →

LSU Healthcare Network (LA) reported to HHS on 2017-05-04 a theft affecting 2,200 individuals. An unencrypted external hard drive containing ePHI — demographic and clinical information used by the Department of Neurology Research — was stolen from business associate LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Corrective actions included HIPAA retraining for the involved researcher and restriction of her ePHI access to view-only mode. OCR obtained assurances of implementation.

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

May 4, 2017

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.Confirmed2,200 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.