MISSISSIPPIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

South Sunflower County Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 4, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

19,000

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for South Sunflower County Hospital →

South Sunflower County Hospital (MS) reported to HHS on 2015-02-04 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 19,000 individuals. A local merchant used shredded hospital documents containing PHI as packing material. Exposed PHI included dates of service, provider names, diagnoses, patient names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth for 19,345 individuals. The hospital retrieved remaining documents, notified affected individuals and media, contracted a shredding vendor, and began converting records to electronic format. OCR reviewed the CE's HIPAA policies and procedures.

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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

Feb 4, 2015

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed19,000 affectedView incident

Name: South Sunflower County Hospital
norm: south sunflower county hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: South Sunflower County Hospital
norm: south sunflower county hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 19,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR reviewed the CE's HIPAA policies and procedures following investigation.

During the incident: Retrieved remaining shredded documents and stored in locked room with limited access
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Investigated and modified policies and procedures
Contracted with a document shredding company to destroy all hospital paper waste containing PHI
Initiated a process to convert health records to electronic format
Changes made: Modified HIPAA policies and procedures
Contracted with certified document shredding vendor
Initiated electronic health records conversion
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: Feb 4, 2015
Raw hash: ff6c4bad2985548858b0fee148339bbefe4092d52b3d375777507e571cf18abb

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Reporting entitySouth Sunflower County Hospital

Victim entitySouth Sunflower County Hospital

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseRetrieved remaining shredded documents and stored in locked room with limited access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing