TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLowResolved
Elizabeth Kerner, M.D.
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Full breach record for Elizabeth Kerner, M.D. →Elizabeth Kerner, M.D. (TX) reported to HHS on 2015-04-03 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 873 individuals. A staff member accidentally sent an email containing patients' names and email addresses to an unintended recipient (a web designer). The recipient notified the CE. PHI involved: names and email addresses. Breached information located in Email. The CE implemented an encryption policy, re-trained staff, and OCR confirmed Security Rule compliance.
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.Confirmed873 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
- Apr 3, 2015
- Raw hash
- 2e0f5ead8e57eda8550a7456bbca4b40a32795f802df0fa8a91054bbe05130f0
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Elizabeth Kerner, M.D.norm: elizabeth kerner md
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Elizabeth Kerner, M.D.norm: elizabeth kerner md
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 873
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — Security Rule compliance review; OCR determined encryption policy complied with the Security Rule
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.