FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Digital Archive Management
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Full breach record for Digital Archive Management →Digital Archive Management (BA for El Centro Regional Medical Center, TX) reported to HHS on 2012-11-21 an Improper Disposal and Theft breach affecting 501 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server and Paper/Films (radiology film jackets and reports). The BA abandoned hard-copy radiology jackets and reports at a locked CE facility and failed to digitize/destroy records per the BAA; missing films were later found in an abandoned Nevada facility by the FBI. PHI included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, and conditions.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified17 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed501 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
- Nov 21, 2012
- Raw hash
- b6429648cb117334bd9e432c38b256a66e9c623f828221caeaa9b74175639d3a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Digital Archive Managementnorm: digital archive management
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Digital Archive Managementnorm: digital archive management
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 26, 2012
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 501
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed CE policies and procedures, risk analysis, risk management plan, and incident report; OCR verified proper BA agreement in place
- Third party
- via Digital Archive Management
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 17 weeks(118 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jul 26, 2012→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.