MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHigh

BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 20, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

3,900

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →24 incidents on file

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported to HHS on 2012-07-20 a theft affecting 3900 individuals. The breach occurred when a physician’s unencrypted personal laptop, containing patient PHI, was stolen from an office on the medical center's campus. The data included medical summaries and, for two individuals, names and social security numbers.

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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

Jul 20, 2012

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_899e07f2e61732f62012-07-24 · +4dVerified

Name: BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: beth israel deaconess medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: beth israel deaconess medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,900nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR investigation occurred simultaneously with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (AGO) investigationOCR and the AGO worked in collaboration to ensure corrective action

During the incident: Notified the police
Hired an independent forensic firm
Provided breach notification to affected individuals and the media
Changes made: Offered affected individuals one year of free credit monitoring
Retrained staff
Enhanced data security policy
Initiated an awareness campaign to educate workforce of security and privacy issues
Encrypted or disabled all laptops
Counseled the physician whose laptop was stolen
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRJul 20 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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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.

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: Jul 20, 2012
Raw hash: b1f454102694e4ec4a630520778ebd0b0dbe305a5f3d62eb9c5579fab24efba9

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Victim entityBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified the police

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing