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NEW JERSEYAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

BioReference Laboratories Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 23, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

3,334

Confidence

94%
Full breach record for BioReference Laboratories Inc. →5 incidents on file

BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (NJ) reported to HHS OCR on 2014-07-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,334 individuals. The covered entity's business associate inadvertently made ePHI viewable over the Internet via a network server. Exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. Following OCR investigation, the CE and BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards, and OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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 23, 2014

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.Confirmed3,334 affectedView incident

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.