WISCONSINAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Aurora Health Care, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 1, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

869

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Aurora Health Care, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Aurora Health Care, Inc. (WI) reported to HHS on 2016-04-01 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 869 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. A business associate, American College of Cardiology Foundation, inadvertently disclosed patient PHI to one of its vendors without a BA agreement. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and registry identification numbers. The CE investigated, destroyed the data, suspended access, and implemented corrective controls. OCR reviewed policies and obtained documented assurances of remediation.

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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

Apr 1, 2016

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.Confirmed869 affectedView incident

Name: Aurora Health Care, Inc.
norm: aurora health care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Aurora Health Care, Inc.
norm: aurora health care
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 869nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented voluntary corrective actions.OCR reviewed the CE's policies and procedures on safeguarding PHI.
Third party: via American College of Cardiology Foundation

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Investigated the breach to determine the root cause
Halted the demonstration
Destroyed the disclosed data
Suspended access to the environment
Reviewed and ensured that the testing environment was free of PHI
Reviewed controls and access methods for vendors
Disabled the copy-and-paste function to prevent copying of data from the registry environment
Formalized procedures for transferring data from the live environment
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: Apr 1, 2016
Raw hash: f2ec1bdfe57739e562a5685f1a024431ea21bea2e4673d9321016c404a35ca7e

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Reporting entityAurora Health Care, Inc.

Victim entityAurora Health Care, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing