DisclosureLens
TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 24, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

4,486

Confidence

93%
Full breach record for Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics →4 incidents on file

An unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee offsite. The laptop contained the PHI of 4,486 patients, including names, addresses, and procedure codes. The covered entity filed a police report, notified affected patients and the media, encrypted all existing laptops, and implemented a policy requiring future laptops to be encrypted before issuance.

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

Jan 24, 2011

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.Confirmed4,486 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.