MNAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Allina Health System
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Full breach record for Allina Health System →Allina Health System (Minneapolis Heart Institute) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-02-23 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 776 individuals. PHI on Paper/Films was placed in a recycling bin and emptied rather than shredded as planned. Breach was discovered on January 20, 2017. Exposed PHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, Medicare IDs, insurance IDs, clinical diagnoses, and lab results. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions — new policies, procedures, and employee training — were implemented.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified5 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed776 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
- Feb 23, 2017
- Raw hash
- 12e4faa61aacc89776d2f0b703340da1dbe3e1d1365f41feedf31d97b173e8c1
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Allina Health Systemnorm: allina health system
- Domain
- allinahealth.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Allina Health Systemnorm: allina health system
- Domain
- allinahealth.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 20, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 776
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — corrective action assurances obtained
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(34 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jan 20, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.