PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Reimbursement Technologies, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 31, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

2,300

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Reimbursement Technologies, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Reimbursement Technologies, Inc. (PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-10-31 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure breach affecting approximately 2,300 individuals. An employee impermissibly accessed check images stored on a network server. PHI involved included personal check information (bank routing numbers), names, and addresses. The employee was terminated; the breach was reported to the FBI. Remediation included guarantor notifications, credit monitoring offers, enhanced employee monitoring, vendor routing-number truncation, new firewall installation, and HIPAA policy updates. OCR obtained assurance all actions were completed.

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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

Oct 31, 2013

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,300 affectedView incident

Name: Reimbursement Technologies, Inc.
norm: reimbursement technologies
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Reimbursement Technologies, Inc.
norm: reimbursement technologies
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,300nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare clearinghouse
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — breach reported; OCR obtained assurance that remediation actions were completedFBI — breach reported for further investigation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminated the employee responsible for the impermissible access
Reported the breach to the FBI for further investigation
Reviewed all check images accessed
Notified affected guarantors and offered credit monitoring
Implemented monitoring of employee check viewing
Identified and addressed vulnerabilities
Updated HIPAA policies and procedures
Required check imaging vendor to truncate bank routing numbers
Installed a new firewall
Changes made: Employee termination
FBI referral
Guarantor notification and credit monitoring offers
Enhanced employee monitoring controls
Vendor contract update (routing number truncation)
Firewall installation
HIPAA policy and procedure updates
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: Oct 31, 2013
Raw hash: 4f8c657db206bbf38fe6379e54545e7ee90a7dc0303330e5c24d58d835a973db

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Reporting entityReimbursement Technologies, Inc.

Victim entityReimbursement Technologies, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTerminated the employee responsible for the impermissible access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing