One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Jan 24, 2011. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_95ff18e4211d433e · 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.
PHI · Identity (basic) · Health (basic)
FEDERAL
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
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.
Affected (this filing): 4,486
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.