FEDERALPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICMedium
The Methodist Hospital
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Full breach record for The Methodist Hospital →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed689 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
- Jan 25, 2010
- Raw hash
- 8f0b6d2542b56cf6033d28682beca3cadbca170347056511e888231bb5c35300
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Methodist Hospitalnorm: the methodist hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The Methodist Hospitalnorm: the methodist hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 689
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR's investigation resulted in the covered entity improving their physical safeguards and in retraining employees.
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.