PAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLowResolved
WellSpan Health
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Full breach record for WellSpan Health →WellSpan Health (Health Plan, PA) reported to HHS on 2017-03-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 732 individuals. A software error caused a business associate to misaddress EOB letters, delivering them to unintended recipients. PHI exposed included names, addresses, and clinical/diagnostic information (Paper/Films). The BA implemented a new audit process and retrained staff; OCR reviewed the covered entity's privacy and security policies.
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.Confirmed732 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
- Mar 23, 2017
- Raw hash
- dc5aa2c507942f9689421bc5cc10a7394eb92f14a8ff3e8771bd88acb9a2a682
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- WellSpan Healthnorm: wellspan health
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- WellSpan Healthnorm: wellspan health
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 732
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed the covered entity's policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules.
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.