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MISSOURIPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Employee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHigh

HITS Scanning Solutions, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 22, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

7,059

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for HITS Scanning Solutions, Inc. →

HITS Scanning Solutions, Inc. reported to HHS on 2011-10-22 a Theft affecting 7059 individuals. The company, a business associate, lost microfilm records containing protected health information of workforce members in transit. The exposed data included names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and clinical information. Following an OCR investigation, the covered entity implemented new shipping procedures and retrained its employees.

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

Oct 22, 2011

Filed

—

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.Confirmed7,059 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.