NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Inventory Management Department
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Full breach record for NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Inventory Management Department →NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Inventory Management Department reported to HHS on 2011-09-26 a Theft affecting 2,600 individuals. A box of 2,600 paper tissue-implant records was discarded by a waste disposal contractor when not properly secured; documents were buried in an out-of-state landfill. PHI of 2,239 individuals included names, dates of birth, surgery dates, surgeon names, procedures, and tissue serial numbers. Breached information located on Paper/Films. OCR investigation resulted in locked storage, staff retraining, and a HIPAA compliance review plan.
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.Confirmed2,600 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 26, 2011
- Raw hash
- 7e14bd164439229ecf961c0ad0e2b0c334c41bfaa944e9c1739012f7a6cb1f3b
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Inventory Management Departmentnorm: nyu hospital for joint diseases inventory management department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Inventory Management Departmentnorm: nyu hospital for joint diseases inventory management department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,600
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation completed; CE required to improve physical safeguards and conduct HIPAA compliance reviews
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.