PhysicalHealthcareTechnologyHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Alere Home Monitoring, Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 1, 2012

Filed

Oct 30, 2012

To disclose

29 days

Affected

554state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Alere Home Monitoring, Inc →

Alere Home Monitoring, Inc. reported the theft of an employee laptop from a burglarized car on September 23, 2012. The unencrypted laptop contained PHI and PII (including SSNs) of 554 New Hampshire residents. The incident was discovered on October 1, 2012. Notifications were sent on October 22, 2012, offering one year of identity protection. Encryption was subsequently deployed across all company laptops.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 8 days

discovery → filing · 29 days

Sep 23, 2012

Begins

Oct 1, 2012

Discovered

Oct 30, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_7bf53434d649def32012-10-18 · +12dVerified
California State AGbd_21d475a5209839632012-11-13 · +14dVerified

Name: Alere Home Monitoring, Inc
norm: alere home monitoring

Name: Alere Home Monitoring, Inc
norm: alere home monitoring
Industry: HealthcarellmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Oct 1, 2012
Breach occurred: Sep 23, 2012
Undetected for: 8 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 22, 2012
Affected individuals: 554state-resident count only
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Installed encryption on every laptop within Alere Home Monitoring
Notified each affected individual
Offered identity protection from Experian Security Assistance for one (1) year
Filed a police report
Changes made: Installed encryption on every laptop within Alere Home Monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 29 days(29 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCROct 18 · first

New Hampshire State AG+12d · this page

California State AG+26d

Pattern: first filing Oct 18 (CA), last Nov 13 (CA) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/alere-20121030.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 30, 2012
Raw hash: aa7a8dbe4ea1e434c62604b10cbe0c5639ff32a2a1ca64ece089dcb35a769931

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAlere Home Monitoring, Inc

Victim entityAlere Home Monitoring, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Oct 1, 2012

Stated responseInstalled encryption on every laptop within Alere Home Monitoring

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov