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GEORGIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Northside Hospital

bd_d083c806ee6d69ce · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 10, 2013

To disclose

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Affected

4,879

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Northside Hospital →

Northside Hospital, Inc. reported to HHS on 2013-12-10 a Loss affecting 4879 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop. A password-protected, unencrypted laptop was lost or stolen when a workforce member inadvertently left it on the hood of her car. The laptop contained ePHI of 4,879 individuals including names, account numbers, billing dates, diagnoses, and lab results. Following the breach, the entity encrypted all its ePHI and revised HIPAA policies regarding mobile devices.

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

Dec 10, 2013

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.Confirmed4,879 affectedView incident

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.