CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPatch Available Not AppliedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Cedars-Sinai Health Systems

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 10, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

33,136

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Cedars-Sinai Health Systems →2 incidents on file

Cedars-Sinai Health System reported to HHS on 2014-09-10 a Theft affecting 33,136 individuals. An employee's unencrypted laptop was stolen in a residential burglary. The laptop was primarily used for pathology software troubleshooting; ePHI was potentially stored in temporary files. Encryption had been disabled by a helpdesk service provider. The CE terminated remote access, notified affected individuals and media, and updated its ePHI encryption policies and procedures following an OCR investigation.

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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

Sep 10, 2014

Filed

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

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_2f6bc14c5179fb392014-09-10Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_6e8d93bf0141703a2014-09-11 · +1dVerified

Name: Cedars-Sinai Health Systems
norm: cedars sinai health
Domain: cedars-sinai.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Cedars-Sinai Health Systems
norm: cedars sinai health
Domain: cedars-sinai.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 33,136nationwide
Data types: Health (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: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation completed; CE updated policies and procedures following OCR review

During the incident: Terminated laptop's remote access capabilities
Conducted internal investigation
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted notice of the incident on its website
Changes made: Updated policies and procedures related to storage, transmission, and encryption of ePHI
Strengthened enforcement of employee adherence to encryption policies
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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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California State AGSep 10 · first

HHS OCRSep 10 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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: Sep 10, 2014
Raw hash: 1db8de88853da17ee677b97c4a37972d757d2a8eb7f9062347093aa6633c1431

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCedars-Sinai Health Systems

Victim entityCedars-Sinai Health Systems

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTerminated laptop's remote access capabilities

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing