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UTAHPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

The Hearing Zone

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 5, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

623

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for The Hearing Zone →

The Hearing Zone (UT), an audiology healthcare provider, reported to HHS OCR on 2014-12-05 that an unencrypted laptop containing ePHI (patient names, dates of birth, and hearing test results) was stolen from a clinic. The breach affected 623 of its own patients and 556 patients from three partner clinics. Police recovered the laptop within weeks. OCR investigation led to media notification, written policies, workforce security training, and encryption of ePHI workstations.

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

Dec 5, 2014

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.Confirmed623 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.