MisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Rotech Healthcare Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 30, 2013

Filed

Oct 24, 2013

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

20state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Rotech Healthcare Inc. →2 incidents on file

Rotech Healthcare Inc. notified the NH AG of a breach involving a former employee who inadvertently removed files containing PII (names, SSNs, health info) of employees and dependents in Nov 2010. The incident was discovered on Aug 30, 2013, when the former employer notified Rotech. 20 NH residents affected. Notifications sent Oct 24, 2013.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1008 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 55 days

Nov 26, 2010

Begins

Aug 30, 2013

Discovered

Oct 24, 2013

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_c52f1acfc74f2a562013-10-28 · +4dVerified
HHS OCRbd_a64ec5c96c07e6fb2013-10-29 · +5dVerified

Name: Rotech Healthcare Inc.
norm: rotech healthcare

Name: Rotech Healthcare Inc.
norm: rotech healthcare
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Aug 30, 2013
Breach occurred: Nov 26, 2010
Undetected for: 1,008 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 24, 2013
Affected individuals: 20state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Reviewing and enhancing our information security practices and procedures
Providing additional training to all employees with access to personal information
Undertaking a thorough review of our document access and data loss processes
Offering complimentary credit monitoring services to those residents whose social security number may have been compromised
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our information security practices and procedures to reduce the risk that someone can take electronic files containing personal information away from our premises
Providing additional training to all employees with access to personal information to remind them of their obligations to safeguard it and to keep it confidential
Undertaking a thorough review of our document access and data loss processes to determine if there are additional measures we can take in our effort to prevent an incident like this from occurring again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGOct 24 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

HHS OCR+5d

Pattern: first filing Oct 24 (NH), last Oct 29 (FL) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/rotech-healthcare-20131024.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 24, 2013
Raw hash: 39932d267c35b8e3e72015c341219f2b78b7efcce99156c38611c974d4ce1f92

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityRotech Healthcare Inc.

Victim entityRotech Healthcare Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 30, 2013

Stated responseReviewing and enhancing our information security practices and procedures

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov