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OHIOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Dermatologists of Southwest Ohio

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 20, 2018

To disclose

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Affected

733

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Dermatologists of Southwest Ohio →

Dermatologists of Southwest Ohio reported to HHS on 2018-12-20 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 733 individuals. The covered entity's cleaning vendor placed paper medical records in a public dumpster. PHI exposed included names, addresses, birthdates, driver's license information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and offered credit monitoring and identity protection. Staff and vendor were retrained on proper disposal methods.

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

Dec 20, 2018

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.Confirmed733 affectedView incident

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.