FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Cancer Care Northwest
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Full breach record for Cancer Care Northwest →Cancer Care Northwest P.S. reported to HHS on 2011-02-09 that a mail-merge error led to the accidental mailing of protected health information for 3,100 individuals. The breached data was on paper or films and included patient names. Though HHS classified the breach type as Theft, the summary describes an internal error. In response, the entity implemented additional safeguards and training, and OCR provided technical assistance.
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.Confirmed3,100 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
- Feb 9, 2011
- Raw hash
- 15a09adff4d2a72d072a60928ac5bfaf289fb87034ac7a131dd225f9fc39b68b
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Cancer Care Northwestnorm: cancer care northwest
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Cancer Care Northwestnorm: 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
- 3,100
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR required the CE to train its workforce members on its newly developed policies and procedures.OCR provided technical assistance regarding substitute breach notification methods.
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.