NEBRASKAPhysicalHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDownstream VictimsHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Seim Johnson, LLP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 8, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

30,972

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Seim Johnson, LLP →

Seim Johnson, LLP, a business associate (BA) providing healthcare auditing services, reported to HHS on 2016-02-08 a Theft incident affecting 30,972 individuals across 10 healthcare provider clients. A health care auditor took his firm-issued laptop on a non-business weekend trip; the backpack containing the laptop was reported missing upon return. The laptop contained PHI including demographic, clinical, and financial information. The laptop may not have been effectively encrypted. Remediation included employee sanctions, retraining on portable device security, and new policies. Breached information located on Laptop.

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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

Feb 8, 2016

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.Confirmed30,972 affectedView incident

Name: Seim Johnson, LLP
norm: seim johnson
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Seim Johnson, LLP
norm: seim johnson
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 30,972nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented corrective actions including sanctioning the involved employee and security officer, retraining employees on security risks for portable devices, and implementing new policies and procedures.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: BA sanctioned the involved employee and its security officer
Retrained employees on security risks involving portable devices
Implemented new policies and procedures for portable device security
Breach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Ensured laptop encryption policy compliance going forward
Implemented corrective action plan accepted by OCR
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.

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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: Feb 8, 2016
Raw hash: b5a7ffe7ac390733f84f0daf05ef02162a54521c5b074de4e08804fde4a3b970

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Reporting entitySeim Johnson, LLP

Victim entitySeim Johnson, LLP

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA sanctioned the involved employee and its security officer

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing