OREGONAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

PT Northwest, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 21, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

1,500

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for PT Northwest, LLC →

PT Northwest, LLC (OR) reported to HHS on 2015-08-21 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,500 individuals. Breached information located in Email. The CE inadvertently emailed a patient questionnaire as a CC rather than BCC, exposing up to 1,500 patient email addresses, some of which contained patients' names. The responsible employee was sanctioned. Following OCR investigation, the CE conducted companywide and in-person HIPAA trainings.

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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

Aug 21, 2015

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,500 affectedView incident

Name: PT Northwest, LLC
norm: pt northwest
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: PT Northwest, LLC
norm: pt northwest
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,500nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation completed; CE conducted companywide annual HIPAA training and in-person follow-up HIPAA trainings
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Sanctioned employee responsible for impermissible disclosure
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Conducted companywide annual HIPAA training
Initiated in-person follow-up HIPAA trainings to be completed by December 2015
Changes made: Companywide annual HIPAA training
In-person follow-up HIPAA trainings scheduled for completion by December 2015
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.

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: Aug 21, 2015
Raw hash: bb2891392841c868de36f27192d0d891f229217b3c41a06ecd22ad8c636a698a

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Reporting entityPT Northwest, LLC

Victim entityPT Northwest, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned employee responsible for impermissible disclosure

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing