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Cancer Care Northwest

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Full breach record for Cancer Care Northwest →

Cancer Care Northwest (Spokane, WA), a healthcare provider, reported to HHS OCR on 2015-08-17 a Loss affecting 1,426 individuals. A workforce member lost a paper binder containing PHI — including names, dates of birth, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information — which was likely discarded with garbage. Breached information was on Paper/Films. No business associate was involved. The CE retrained staff, mandated electronic note-taking, notified affected individuals and media, and offered identity theft protection services. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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.Confirmed1,426 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: Aug 17, 2015
Raw hash: c9b8ed33bfc274f77193e1925721d3231857acd64adcc1c325b32a0b1a8429cf

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Cancer Care Northwest
norm: cancer care northwest
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Cancer Care Northwest
norm: cancer care northwest
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,426
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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

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.