CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center
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Full breach record for Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center →On May 8, 2017, Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center (CA) discovered its Electromyography (EMG) machine was stolen from an employee's car. A laptop attached to the EMG contained ePHI of approximately 548 patients, including names and dates of birth. The laptop was password-protected but not encrypted. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Remediation included laptop encryption, policy updates, and employee retraining. OCR provided technical assistance on breach notification and Security Rule requirements.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified5 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed548 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 14, 2017
- Raw hash
- 97a84e59899801a02c4ef96d8888dff4891c04a08d5ee720e52933b322b69ebd
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Bay Area Pain and Wellness Centernorm: bay area pain and wellness center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Bay Area Pain and Wellness Centernorm: bay area pain and wellness center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- May 8, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 548
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided technical assistance regarding breach notification and the Security Rule risk analysis and risk management provisions.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: May 8, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.