One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed May 5, 2011. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_3b0e3218e82b46af · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
FEDERAL
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Methodist Charlton Medical Center reported to HHS on 2011-05-05 a theft affecting 1500 individuals. An unencrypted laptop containing demographic and clinical data for 1,523 patients was stolen from a locked office. In response, the center filed a police report, notified patients and the media, expanded its encryption policy, and implemented additional physical safeguards.
Affected (this filing): 1,500
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.