AZAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
TMC HEALTHCARE
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Full breach record for TMC HEALTHCARE →On July 12, 2018, TMC HealthCare (Tucson, AZ) discovered that paper files containing PHI of 1,776 individuals had inadvertently been left unsecured in an unlocked storage suite. Exposed PHI included names, dates of birth, addresses, medical record numbers, insurance IDs or SSNs, diagnoses, treatment info, medications, and test results. The CE secured the files and notified affected individuals, media, and HHS. OCR obtained corrective-action assurances. Breach submitted to HHS on 09/07/2018. Location: Paper/Films.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,776 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
- Sep 7, 2018
- Raw hash
- dfeac888839d537e3b162d992c460c768fc452cd31d621f1f86a56544124d19d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- TMC HEALTHCAREnorm: tmc healthcare
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- TMC HEALTHCAREnorm: tmc healthcare
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 12, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,776
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach notification submitted; OCR obtained assurances that corrective action steps were implemented.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jul 12, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.