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New Mexico Heart Institute

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 23, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

4,185

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for New Mexico Heart Institute →

New Mexico Heart Institute reported to HHS on 2016-11-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4185 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A business associate recovered a thumb drive from a former employee containing patient PHI.

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

Nov 23, 2016

Filed

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

Part of Ambucor Health Solutions supply-chain incident (2016) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,185 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.