ILAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Walgreen Co.
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Full breach record for Walgreen Co. →Walgreen Co. reported to HHS on 2017-02-03 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4500 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The covered entity sent improperly formatted survey letters where PHI was visible in the envelope's addressee window, exposing prescription histories, clinical, and demographic data. The entity investigated, revised quality control steps, retrained staff, notified HHS and individuals, and posted a substitute notice on its website.
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.Confirmed4,500 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 3, 2017
- Raw hash
- 44bb0d1617b6ee4810839b873407a0dd730fe6dfe911d04b912647e65927dc59
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Walgreen Co.norm: walgreen
- Domain
- walgreens.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Walgreen Co.norm: walgreen
- Domain
- walgreens.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 4,500
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
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.