MSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved

South Sunflower County Hospital

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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.

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.Confirmed19,000 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 4, 2015
Raw hash: ff6c4bad2985548858b0fee148339bbefe4092d52b3d375777507e571cf18abb

Source filing

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Reporting entity

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

Victim entity

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

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 19,000
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR reviewed the CE's HIPAA policies and procedures following investigation.

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

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.