KENTUCKYPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Health Help, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 10, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

535

Confidence

97%

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Health Help, Inc. (KY) reported to HHS on 2013-12-10 a Theft affecting 535 individuals. An unencrypted portable computer drive was stolen from a workforce member's unlocked personal vehicle at home. ePHI involved included names and birthdates. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. Corrective actions included employee retraining, random audits for unencrypted ePHI, updated usage agreements, and sanctioning of the responsible workforce member. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.

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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

Dec 10, 2013

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.Confirmed535 affectedView incident

Name: Health Help, Inc.
norm: health help
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Health Help, Inc.
norm: health help
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 535nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective action was implemented.

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media upon discovery.
Reminded employees of safeguards policy.
Provided additional training to workforce members authorized to take laptops and mobile devices home.
Instituted random audits to ensure unencrypted ePHI is not stored on computers and mobile devices.
Updated the computer usage agreement for employees.
Sanctioned the workforce member who violated policy.
Changes made: Random audits instituted to detect unencrypted ePHI on computers and mobile devices.
Updated computer usage agreement.
Additional workforce training on mobile device safeguards.
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: Dec 10, 2013
Raw hash: 0ab23a5f5cf21e751936e861587ad01e8d53b5ac40d200322fe83f93e6c7b228

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Reporting entityHealth Help, Inc.

Victim entityHealth Help, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media upon discovery.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing