NJMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisuse OtherData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMETADATAMediumResolved
First Step Counseling, Inc.
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Full breach record for First Step Counseling, Inc. →From May 1 to August 5, 2011, two employees of First Step Counseling, Inc. (NJ) made unauthorized photocopies of documents containing 638 patients' PHI — including names, insurance numbers, diagnoses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and SSNs — and disclosed them to their personal attorney. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following an OCR investigation, the CE implemented corrective actions including an electronic billing system, locked patient files, and physical front-desk safeguards. Breached information located on Paper/Films.
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.Confirmed638 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
- Oct 23, 2012
- Raw hash
- 20179ca8e3867d3c06e400139eec5e89a799b5799fc57ea75e58c0fe5f3d7633
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- First Step Counseling, Inc.norm: first step counseling
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- First Step Counseling, Inc.norm: first step counseling
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 638
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMETADATA
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR investigation completed; corrective action plan accepted by OCR
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.