MINNESOTAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Allina Health System

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 6, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

838

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Allina Health System →7 incidents on file

Allina Health reported that it erroneously mailed letters and preventative screening kits to incorrect recipients, affecting 838 individuals. The protected health information involved included individuals' names. The incident, reported on April 6, 2015, involved paper documents and films. In response, the company retrained employees and implemented a new, more secure mailing workflow.

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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

Apr 6, 2015

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed838 affectedView incident

Name: Allina Health System
norm: allina health system
Domain: allinahealth.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Allina Health System
norm: allina health system
Domain: allinahealth.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 838nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Engaged an outside vendor to mail the individual notifications and establish a call center to accommodate any patient inquiries
Ceased mailing preventative screening kits until an investigation was completed
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: Apr 6, 2015
Raw hash: edb1efad6cda2c6d28138a49b5201e880f5724175a6eeb74627c1608d017791e

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Reporting entityAllina Health System

Victim entityAllina Health System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEngaged an outside vendor to mail the individual notifications and establish a call center to accommodate any patient inquiries

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing