TENNESSEEPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Chattanooga Family Practice Associates, P.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 16, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

1,711

Confidence

97%

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Chattanooga Family Practice Associates, P.C. reported to HHS on 2010-08-16 a Loss affecting 1,711 individuals. A physician lost a flash drive used for data backup and remote patient data access. The drive contained names, dates of birth, and treatment notes. Breached information located on Other/Other Portable Electronic Device. The CE retrained the physician and banned PHI storage on removable devices. OCR's investigation prompted media notification and substitute website notice.

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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

Aug 16, 2010

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,711 affectedView incident

Name: Chattanooga Family Practice Associates, P.C.
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Chattanooga Family Practice Associates, P.C.
norm: chattanooga family practice associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,711nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: OtherPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; CE notified media and posted substitute notification on its website as a result of OCR's investigation
Initial access: removable_media

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Retrained the physician who lost the flash drive
Implemented organization-wide policy prohibiting storage of PHI on removable electronic devices
Notified media
Posted substitute notification on website
Changes made: Policy implemented to prohibit PHI storage on removable electronic devices
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.

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.

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: Aug 16, 2010
Raw hash: c99142cc5a0209ccc9d2ab38d66c094b061004b85ffc96a948f0e997eeadbeb7

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Reporting entityChattanooga Family Practice Associates, P.C.

Victim entityChattanooga Family Practice Associates, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing