UTPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
The Hearing Zone
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed623 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Dec 5, 2014
- Raw hash
- 628e507b8f2b0ca77b56a35b51010c4f87452665ec23f3706c35ef89206f2fda
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Hearing Zonenorm: the hearing zone
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The Hearing Zonenorm: the hearing zone
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 623
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation opened; OCR provided substantial technical assistance
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.