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PENNSYLVANIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Center for Minimally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 5, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

992

Confidence

50%
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Center for Minimmally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery reported to HHS on 2016-08-05 a data breach affecting 992 individuals due to an employee error. An email regarding a support group was sent to patients, but other recipients' email addresses were mistakenly visible. The breach involved patient names and email addresses, suggesting their status as patients. In response, the center attempted to recall the email, revised policies, retrained staff, and notified affected individuals.

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

Aug 5, 2016

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.Confirmed992 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.