ILPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd
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Full breach record for Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd →On August 18, 2015, an employee of Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd. (Barrington, IL) discovered a laptop and an EMG machine were stolen from her vehicle. The devices contained names, dates of birth, and clinical/demographic information for approximately 1,009 individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; filed a police report; stopped transporting EMG machines; and retrained the employee on HIPAA policies. OCR reviewed documentation substantiating all response actions. Breach reported to HHS on 2015-09-24.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified5 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,009 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
- Sep 24, 2015
- Raw hash
- 42d666aba520bbd5eefe8f55a27de6cac3e6f93ad0b55dd5c1c5d7c4e8a4c5a7
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltdnorm: barrington orthopedic specialists
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltdnorm: barrington orthopedic specialists
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 18, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,009
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed documentation substantiating all CE actions in response to the breach
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Aug 18, 2015→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.