DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)MetadataMediumResolved

Braun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 28, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,200

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Braun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center →2 incidents on file

Braun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center (Washington, DC) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-07-28 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,200 individuals. The covered entity sent a mass email to patients that failed to conceal recipients' email addresses, exposing patient email addresses as PHI. The Privacy Officer attempted a message recall, conducted a breach risk assessment (low risk determined), and implemented a new policy eliminating mass emails in favor of a secure individual patient reminder system. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action. Breached information was located in Email.

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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

Jul 28, 2017

Filed

—

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.Confirmed1,200 affectedView incident

Name: Braun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center
norm: braun dermatology skin cancer center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Braun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center
norm: braun dermatology skin cancer center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,200nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Metadata
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions

During the incident: Privacy Officer worked with IT Department to attempt to recall the message
Performed a breach risk assessment; determined low risk of compromise to patients' PHI
Eliminated mass emails; implemented individual emails through a secure patient reminder system
Implemented new policy and procedure for email communications
Changes made: Mass email process replaced with secure individual patient reminder system
New privacy/email policy and procedure implemented
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: Jul 28, 2017
Raw hash: d54b6b2fee0a3c11268865414da4bd8035ecdd93bbfe3857c04be9363488fca6

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Reporting entityBraun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center

Victim entityBraun Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responsePrivacy Officer worked with IT Department to attempt to recall the message

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing