NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)HighResolved

Mary Ruth Buchness, MD, Dermatologist, P.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 11, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

14,910

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

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Mary Ruth Buchness, MD, Dermatologist, P.C. reported to HHS on 2015-12-11 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 14910 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A workforce member sent an email with an Excel spreadsheet attachment containing patient PHI to unintended recipients.

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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

Dec 11, 2015

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_b5ebcdaa798575832015-12-23 · +12dVerified

Name: Mary Ruth Buchness, MD, Dermatologist, P.C.
norm: mary ruth buchness md dermatologist
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mary Ruth Buchness, MD, Dermatologist, P.C.
norm: mary ruth buchness md dermatologist
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 14,910nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented the corrective actions listed

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, the media, and the affected individuals
Offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services at no cost to the affected individuals
Posted a notice to its website
Changes made: Updated its HIPAA policies and procedures to prohibit sending an email to multiple recipients
Provided HIPAA training to its workforce
Conducted a risk analysis
Implemented a corresponding remediation plan
Sanctioned the workforce member responsible for the breach incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRDec 11 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+12d

Pattern: first filing Dec 11 (NY), last Dec 23 (MA) — a 12-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.

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: Dec 11, 2015
Raw hash: 4832312852b231a5f8e66c330e7d6fafb0b3f4d2a206fcdd3b1f34c101e42c2f

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMary Ruth Buchness, MD, Dermatologist, P.C.

Victim entityMary Ruth Buchness, MD, Dermatologist, P.C.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, the media, and the affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing