PhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Physicians Skin and Weight Centers, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 4, 2014

Filed

Dec 26, 2014

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Physicians Skin and Weight Centers, Inc. →

On November 4, 2014, a password-protected laptop and external hard drive were stolen from an employee's vehicle in Fresno, California. The devices potentially contained patient information including names, images from treatment, banking information (routing/account numbers, credit card numbers), and financing applications with SSNs, dates of birth, addresses, and employment details. The organization notified the police and offered 12 months of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 52 days

Nov 4, 2014

Begins

Nov 4, 2014

Discovered

Dec 26, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Physicians Skin and Weight Centers, Inc.
norm: physicians skin and weight centers

Name: Physicians Skin and Weight Centers, Inc.
norm: physicians skin and weight centers
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Nov 4, 2014
Breach occurred: Nov 4, 2014 – Nov 4, 2014
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)Employment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Notified the Fresno Police Department and filed a formal police report
Arranged for AllClear ID to protect identity for 12 months at no cost to the patients
Changes made: Reexamining our practices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(52 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-47861
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 26, 2014
Raw hash: d2e123a604441ab35528702809bf60b47c34ed3cf81901c46e4e70cd1c62e2a8

Reporting entityPhysicians Skin and Weight Centers, Inc.

Victim entityPhysicians Skin and Weight Centers, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Nov 4, 2014

Stated responseNotified the Fresno Police Department and filed a formal police report

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov