CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 23, 2009

To disclose

—

Affected

5,900

Confidence

93%

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City of Hope National Medical Center reported to HHS OCR on 2009-11-23 a Theft affecting approximately 5,900 individuals. A laptop computer was stolen from a workforce member's car containing PHI. Breached information located on Laptop. Post-breach, the entity encrypted all PHI on laptops, improved physical safeguards, and retrained employees following an OCR investigation.

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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

Nov 23, 2009

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,900 affectedView incident

Name: CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
norm: city of hope national medical center
Domain: cityofhope.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
norm: city of hope national medical center
Domain: cityofhope.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,900nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR investigation resulted in improved physical safeguards and employee retraining

During the incident: Encrypted all protected health information stored on laptops following the breach
Cooperated with OCR investigation
Changes made: Encrypted all PHI stored on laptops
Improved physical safeguards
Retrained employees
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: Nov 23, 2009
Raw hash: c6038cbfa080b207ccd1b8d2450d32b690e5a915f7fab52358a8e0399439f6f3

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Reporting entityCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Victim entityCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEncrypted all protected health information stored on laptops following the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing