WASHINGTONAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Seattle - King County Department of Public Health
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed750 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
- May 7, 2013
- Raw hash
- aaa4885b5576d27dd3ddddeade1617d87cbbd5c6463db1a376c695834bf6c79d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Seattle - King County Department of Public Healthnorm: seattle king county department of public health
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Seattle - King County Department of Public Healthnorm: seattle king county department of public health
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 750
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation confirmed appropriate notifications and corrective actions; CE required to retrain all staff on revised disposal policy.
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.