LOUISIANAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 27, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

2,553

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc. →

Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc. reported to HHS on 2018-04-27 a Theft affecting 2553 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop. The stolen laptop contained unencrypted ePHI including names, dates of birth, and diagnoses.

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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

Apr 27, 2018

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.Confirmed2,553 affectedView incident

Name: Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc.
norm: eye care surgery center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc.
norm: eye care surgery center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,553nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified OCRReported to local law enforcement

During the incident: Provided notice to OCR, affected individuals, and the media
Reported the incident to local law enforcement
Changes made: Encrypted its laptops and workstations
Improved physical safeguards to prevent similar incidents
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: Apr 27, 2018
Raw hash: 26c5490d4f90e9d2715de421baf6d1972ab243e18450f62d34318fca7477e09f

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Reporting entityEye Care Surgery Center, Inc.

Victim entityEye Care Surgery Center, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided notice to OCR, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing