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Rick Lawson, Professional Computer Services

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Rick Lawson, Professional Computer Services (NC), a Business Associate, reported to HHS on 2009-12-11 a breach classified as Theft affecting approximately 2,000 individuals. During an IT vendor transition, a workforce member of the outgoing BA entered the covered entity's computer system, changed passwords, disabled accounts, removed drive mappings, deleted the backup program, and deactivated antivirus software. PHI affected included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, appointments, insurance information, and dental records. Breached information was located on Desktop Computers, Electronic Medical Records, and Network Servers.

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.Confirmed2,000 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 11, 2009
Raw hash: bed1149af14dcb469374db637861a836cd44b991d57e7bd45f7e7ba1b8d39492

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Rick Lawson, Professional Computer Services
norm: rick lawson professional computer

Victim entity

Name: Rick Lawson, Professional Computer Services
norm: rick lawson professional computer
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,000
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1531 Account Access RemovalT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: PartnerGrudge
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; CE provided copies of HIPAA security and privacy policies and procedures, and signed BA agreements.
Initial access: valid_credentials

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

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.