ALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
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Full breach record for Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services →Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services reported to HHS on 2021-12-20 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 934 individuals. The covered entity sold several audiology devices without removing protected health information, which included names, dates of birth, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. Following the breach, it sanctioned the responsible employee and implemented additional administrative safeguards.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed934 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Dec 20, 2021
- Raw hash
- afcf98a4bbce49f20c19b26864a8568b95bcfacf4270750f3d69a7b54c1aedee
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Servicesnorm: alabama department of rehabilitation
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Servicesnorm: alabama department of rehabilitation
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 934
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.