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INDIANAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

St. Vincent Hospital and Healthcare Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 18, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

1,142

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for St. Vincent Hospital and Healthcare Inc →5 incidents on file

St. Vincent Hospital and Healthcare Inc. (Indiana) reported to HHS OCR on 2014-02-18 a Theft affecting 1,142 individuals. A laptop connected to an EEG diagnostic system was stolen from a procedure cart in a hospital nursing unit. PHI exposed included patients' names, dates of birth, dates of service, gender, physicians' names, and types of studies. Breached information was located on a laptop. Following the breach, the entity encrypted its laptops, updated mobile device safeguarding policies, and implemented laptop security cable procedures. OCR obtained documented 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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 18, 2014

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,142 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.