NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 8, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

1,315

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services →6 incidents on file

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services - Division of State Operated Health Care Facilities reported to HHS on 2013-11-08 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1315 individuals. Breached information located on Other. Patient payment information, names, addresses, and facility names were erroneously posted on the NC Open Book website.

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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

Nov 8, 2013

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.Confirmed1,315 affectedView incident

Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,315nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1567 Exploitation for Defense Evasion
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the corrective actions listed above were completed

During the incident: Removed the information from the website immediately upon discovery
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Placed substitute notice on its website
Provided a toll-free phone number for affected individuals to obtain additional information
Changes made: Implemented procedures limiting the types of personally identifiable information that are disclosed in the accounting system
Improved safeguards for all HIPAA-related documents and email correspondence containing PHI
Implemented a procedure that requires prior review of any data being released to the public and redaction of confidential information
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.

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: Nov 8, 2013
Raw hash: 3906348b863f033a4ec8428a67e4cee0ab787ca8447b4e1f0ef7baa268a38536

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Reporting entityNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRemoved the information from the website immediately upon discovery

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing