MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 1, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

2,088

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc. →4 incidents on file

RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (MA), a business associate, reported to HHS on 2019-03-01 a Theft affecting 2,088 individuals (19,893 per description). A BA workforce member's backpack containing an unencrypted laptop was stolen. PHI involved included demographic, clinical, and health claims information. The BA notified nine covered entities, affected individuals, media, and HHS. Post-breach remediation included encrypted laptop replacement, device-wide encryption confirmation, policy revisions, and cybersecurity retraining. OCR provided technical assistance on notification timing.

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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

Mar 1, 2019

Filed

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

This filing is one of 8 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_74f496ed77915c142019-03-01Verified
Montana State AGbd_dd877224ae9825622019-03-01Verified
California State AGbd_7fe23bd39baf57cf2019-03-06 · +5dVerified
California State AGbd_82bcb10591e7a1b32019-04-03 · +33dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_8e133f0ad4fffaa02019-04-03 · +33dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_c20c25322bd1f7ce2019-04-04 · +34dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_018b8e537077559e2019-01-01 · +59dVerified by operator

Name: RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc.
norm: rsc insurance brokerage
Industry: Business Associate

Name: RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc.
norm: rsc insurance brokerage
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,088nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the BA concerning the timing of its breach notificationsBA agreed to revise its policies and procedures in response to OCR guidance

During the incident: Provided breach notification to nine covered entities
Notified affected individuals, media, and HHS on behalf of covered entities
Changes made: Replaced the workforce member's laptop with an encrypted laptop
Confirmed that encryption is in place on all other existing devices
Revised policies and procedures
Provided retraining on cyber security to all workforce members
Revised breach notification timing policies and procedures per OCR guidance
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Oregon State AG+59d

Montana State AG+59d

HHS OCR+59d · this page

California State AG+64d

California State AG+92d

Massachusetts State AG+92d

New Hampshire State AG+93d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Apr 4 (NH) — a 93-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.

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: Mar 1, 2019
Raw hash: 5a1c9ce3d93be62a42195fe34724d0d69c4831068a368761d316d0da8739fa1e

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityRSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc.

Victim entityRSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to nine covered entities

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing