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COLORADOMisuseHealthcareHealthcareData MishandlingEmail MisuseData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 31, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

532

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic →

Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic (CO healthcare provider) reported that an employee emailed PHI of approximately 532 patients to her personal email account. The PHI included names, SSNs, insurance numbers/information, procedure descriptions, and treating physicians' names. The clinic notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; sanctioned the employee; confirmed deletion of the PHI from the employee's personal computer and email; and retrained staff on HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. OCR obtained the clinic's HIPAA policies and 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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jul 31, 2013

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed532 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.