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MINNESOTAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Health (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

North Memorial Health Care

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$1.55M

Discovered

Filed

Sep 27, 2011

To disclose

Affected

9,497

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for North Memorial Health Care2 incidents on file

North Memorial Health Care (MN) reported a Theft breach to HHS OCR on 2011-09-27 affecting 9,497 individuals. An unencrypted, password-protected laptop was stolen from a business associate (Accretive Health, Inc.) workforce member's locked vehicle, exposing patient ePHI. OCR found North Memorial lacked a required BA agreement and failed to complete an enterprise-wide risk analysis. North Memorial agreed to pay $1,550,000 and implement a corrective action plan. Breached information located on Laptop.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 27, 2011

Filed

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRSep 27 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 27 (MN), last Mar 16 — a 1632-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.