MAINEPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Eastern Maine Medical Center
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Full breach record for Eastern Maine Medical Center →Eastern Maine Medical Center (ME) reported to HHS on 2018-02-02 a Theft affecting 660 individuals. An unencrypted external computer hard drive, attached to a medical imaging computer, was lost. The device was solely accessed and used by business associate Biosense Webster, Inc. PHI involved included patients' names, dates of birth, dates of service, medical record numbers, procedures, physicians' names, and locations. OCR investigated; the CE updated its Risk Management Plan, implemented new technical safeguards, improved physical security, and retrained staff.
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.Confirmed660 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
- Feb 2, 2018
- Raw hash
- 644236e39ed72b06cb312e3783deafc7a04d87de34cc150f546f4edd7b9acd5d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Eastern Maine Medical Centernorm: eastern maine medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Eastern Maine Medical Centernorm: eastern maine medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 660
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access· Biosense Webster, Inc.
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation conducted; CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and media
- Third party
- via Biosense Webster, Inc.
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.