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TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MinorHighResolved

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jul 30, 2010

To disclose

Affected

1,646

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE7 incidents on file

Baylor College of Medicine reported to HHS OCR on 2010-07-30 a Theft affecting 1,646 individuals (later revised to ~1,618). An unencrypted laptop was stolen from an administrative office. The laptop contained PHI of pediatric cardiology patients—names, medical record numbers, dates of service, diagnoses, and dates of birth. Baylor and Texas Children's Hospital jointly notified affected individuals and local media after a delay due to a law enforcement request. Following OCR's investigation, the CE revised IT policies and modified physical safeguards. Breached information located on Laptop.

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

Jul 30, 2010

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.Confirmed1,646 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.