IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareError OtherCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland
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Full breach record for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland →On May 6, 2016, during a move out of its Dubuque Health Center, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (IA) mistakenly left a locked closet open containing patients' paper records, resulting in an unauthorized access/disclosure breach. PHI exposed included pregnancy tests, lab logs, and colposcopy documentation for approximately 2,506 individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained documented assurances of corrective actions, including workforce retraining.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,506 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
- Jul 1, 2016
- Raw hash
- 2687634cd0b0ace898f46aae5e7780abdf19e88651c6150519e6c4aded9f78fd
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Planned Parenthood of the Heartlandnorm: planned parenthood of the heartland
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Planned Parenthood of the Heartlandnorm: planned parenthood of the heartland
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- May 6, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,506
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — obtained documented assurances of corrective action implementation
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(56 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: May 6, 2016→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.