WASHINGTONAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Western Washington Medical Group
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Full breach record for Western Washington Medical Group →Western Washington Medical Group Inc. reported to HHS on 2018-01-12 a Improper Disposal affecting 842 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A janitorial service comingled shredded PHI with regular trash, exposing patient names, addresses, birthdates, and medical data. The entity provided breach notification, identity theft protection, and retrained staff.
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.Confirmed842 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
- Jan 12, 2018
- Raw hash
- 1b864fa50c4ded9a0cd08b255a3dcaec67c3483fb7650402f3b218dd2ad4a13e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Western Washington Medical Groupnorm: western washington medical
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Western Washington Medical Groupnorm: western washington medical
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 842
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
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.