VAPhysicalHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
Towers Watson & Co.
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Full breach record for Towers Watson & Co. →Towers Watson, a business associate of General Agencies Welfare Benefits Program, lost two electronic media disks containing PHI while transporting them between BA offices. The disks held names, health plan numbers, and Social Security numbers of 1,874 individuals. The BA notified affected individuals and provided two years of credit monitoring. The CE notified HHS and media, posted substitute notice, had PHI destroyed or secured under a new BA agreement, and updated policies after OCR investigation.
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.Confirmed1,874 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 27, 2010
- Raw hash
- bd8bb89cd376ee6a9cbab01f1512352468e16978bf5793b600b2fea40b4e992a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Towers Watson & Co.norm: towers watson
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Towers Watson & Co.norm: towers watson
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,874
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation completed; CE updated privacy and breach notification policies and procedures
- Third party
- via Towers Watsonbusiness associate
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.