MNAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
Allina Health System
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Full breach record for Allina Health System →Allina Health (MN) reported to HHS on 2015-12-23 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 6,195 individuals. On October 27, 2015, a janitorial vendor erroneously placed patients' PHI in a trash dumpster; breached information was on Paper/Films and included financial, demographic, and clinical data. The CE updated its physical safeguards policy, educated staff, and worked with Iron Mountain (its PHI disposal BA) on corrective actions. OCR confirmed implementation of remediation measures.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,195 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 23, 2015
- Raw hash
- c059f19f369f0417851e54c15a3eaae8627fb6d7c1a655d33db875e54338839f
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Allina Health Systemnorm: allina health system
- Domain
- allinahealth.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Allina Health Systemnorm: allina health system
- Domain
- allinahealth.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 27, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 6,195
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained a copy of the CE's business associate agreement with Iron Mountain for PHI disposal services.OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions taken in response to this breach incident.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Oct 27, 2015→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.