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NORTH CAROLINAMultipleHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorTheftMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

Raleigh Orthopaedic

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 30, 2013

To disclose

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Affected

17,300

Confidence

50%
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Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic reported to HHS on 2013-04-30 a breach involving improper disposal, theft, and unauthorized access affecting 17,300 individuals. The incident involved the disclosure of paper x-ray films to a third-party vendor for silver harvesting and digitization without a formal business associate agreement, leading to a $750,000 settlement with the Office for Civil Rights.

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

Apr 30, 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.Confirmed17,300 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.