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TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Medium

The Methodist Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 25, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

689

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Methodist Hospital →3 incidents on file

An unencrypted laptop computer containing the protected health information of 689 individuals was stolen from The Methodist Hospital's unlocked testing office. The information included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, age, gender, race, and medication information. Following the breach, the hospital restricted the storage of electronic protected health information to network drives, improved physical safeguards, and retrained employees.

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

Jan 25, 2010

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.Confirmed689 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.