VAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Wardell Orthopaedics, P.C.
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Full breach record for Wardell Orthopaedics, P.C. →Wardell Orthopaedics, P.C. (VA) reported to HHS on 2018-08-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 552 individuals. A staff member inadvertently faxed 552 patients' billing statements to a law firm without authorization while responding to a medical records request. The PHI included patient names and diagnoses. The law firm confirmed destruction of all PHI copies. The responsible staff member is no longer employed at the covered entity. Breached information located on: Other.
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.Confirmed552 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
- Aug 16, 2018
- Raw hash
- 18eeb2d8da47563b1930dd8e7b9446a3a93c81822878debf7b50e0874c60ca57
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Wardell Orthopaedics, P.C.norm: wardell orthopaedics
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Wardell Orthopaedics, P.C.norm: wardell orthopaedics
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 552
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach notification submitted; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.