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Cancer Care Northwest

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 17, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

1,426

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Cancer Care Northwest →2 incidents on file

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.

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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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 17, 2015

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,426 affectedView incident

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,426nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

During the incident: Instructed workforce member to only take notes electronically.
Retrained workforce member on HIPAA policies.
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Offered identity theft and fraud protection services to affected individuals.
Changes made: Mandatory electronic note-taking policy enforced.
HIPAA workforce retraining completed.
OCR corrective action assurances obtained.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

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

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Reporting entityCancer Care Northwest

Victim entityCancer Care Northwest

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseInstructed workforce member to only take notes electronically.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing