NCPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved

The Outer Banks Hospital

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Outer Banks Hospital (NC) reported to HHS on 2016-08-19 the loss of two unencrypted USB flash drives containing PHI of approximately 1,000 individuals during a facility move. Exposed data included names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Corrective actions included workforce retraining, deployment of download-prevention technology, auto-encryption for portable media, and updated physical acquisition procedures. OCR obtained assurances of full remediation.

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.Confirmed1,000 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: Aug 19, 2016
Raw hash: aea2af29293be79c9f2705d2f994b48d6c60650332bf0a71657543167cdb32e2

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: The Outer Banks Hospital
norm: the outer banks hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: The Outer Banks Hospital
norm: the outer banks hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,000
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions

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

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.