SOUTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved

Lancaster County EMS

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Full breach record for Lancaster County EMS →

Lancaster County EMS (Lancaster County, SC) reported to HHS on 2015-06-04 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 50,000 individuals. A safe containing two unencrypted flash drives and two unencrypted hard drives went missing from the CE's administration building. PHI on the missing media included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medications, medical histories, treatment records, and health insurance information for approximately 55,000 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.

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.Confirmed50,000 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: Jun 4, 2015
Raw hash: 8902b5e94710bdda61e0ca8b55f5307c707fea51b6b2c6d58366b6ec76a5e1ae

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Lancaster County EMS
norm: lancaster county ems
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Lancaster County EMS
norm: lancaster county ems
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 50,000
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action plan accepted; assurances obtained by OCR

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

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.