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WASHINGTONAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

Seattle - King County Department of Public Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 7, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

750

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Seattle - King County Department of Public Health →

Public Health — Seattle & King County (WA) reported to HHS on 2013-05-07 an Improper Disposal breach affecting up to 750 individuals. PHI — including treatment/medical condition information and potentially SSNs for five individuals — was inadvertently placed in regular recycling rather than secure disposal. Paper/Films were the breached medium. The CE notified HHS, media, and ~2,300 individuals, updated disposal policies, and was required by OCR to retrain all staff on revised procedures.

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

May 7, 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.Confirmed750 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.