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MICHIGANAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedMetadataIdentity (basic)LowResolved

Ascension Borgess Hospital

bd_2f6994fe63c20991 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 14, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

996

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Ascension Borgess Hospital →

Ascension Borgess Hospital (Michigan) reported to HHS on 2019-11-14 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 996 individuals. An employee sent a mass email to 996 individuals without using the blind copy (BCC) function, exposing recipients' email addresses. PHI was limited to email addresses only. Breached information located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, retrained the responsible employee, and delivered HIPAA Privacy Rule training to all staff. OCR confirmed corrective actions were implemented.

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

Nov 14, 2019

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed996 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.