FEDERALPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLow
THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
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Full breach record for THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. →An employee of Brigham & Women’s Hospital had an encrypted laptop and cell phone stolen during an armed robbery and was forced to disclose the password and encryption keys. The devices contained the protected health information (PHI) of 999 individuals, including names, medical records numbers, age, and diagnostic information. In response to the investigation, the hospital initiated a new enterprise-wide risk analysis.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed999 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Nov 17, 2014
- Raw hash
- 98d2022523c50cab7b59c84849433aa30e2e24bbc24eee53b610cfdc774d75f9
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.norm: the brigham and women s hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.norm: the brigham and women s hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 999
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: not extracted→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.