IOWAAccidentalHealthcareEducationHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Thielen Student Health Center
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Full breach record for Thielen Student Health Center →Thielen Student Health Center (Iowa) reported to HHS on 2018-11-30 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 599 individuals. On November 5, 2018, a human coding error caused patient survey invitation emails to be sent to the wrong patients. Of 599 affected, 594 emails implicated FERPA rather than HIPAA; one ePHI email was successfully recalled, leaving 4 individuals with HIPAA-covered ePHI breached (names, appointment dates, physician names). No business associate was involved. Breached information was located in email.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified25 days 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.Confirmed599 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
- Nov 30, 2018
- Raw hash
- 6e577df5f1d8962577ac364287f2c23ee85c5cdef81f4d80ec1fdd6dfb5476e5
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Thielen Student Health Centernorm: thielen student health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Thielen Student Health Centernorm: thielen student health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultEducationllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 5, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 599
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified; written assurances provided regarding Privacy Rule policy revision and implementation
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 25 days(25 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: Nov 5, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.