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.

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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

Jul 31, 2013

Filed

—

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.Confirmed532 affectedView incident

Name: Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic
norm: rocky mountain spine clinic
Industry: Healthcare Provider

Name: Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic
norm: rocky mountain spine clinic
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 532nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR obtained copies of HIPAA policies and procedures and assurances of corrective action

During the incident: Sanctioned the employee
Verified PHI was removed from employee's personal computer and email account
Retrained staff on Privacy and Security Rule provisions
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Confirmed deletion of PHI from employee's personal devices/accounts
Staff retraining on HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Updated/affirmed HIPAA policies and procedures
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: Jul 31, 2013
Raw hash: e1045aa2dd23ea9d0b263b739f89d40c1e41331babc877be0e34d1af9f394d8e

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Reporting entityRocky Mountain Spine Clinic

Victim entityRocky Mountain Spine Clinic

IncidentInsider

Stated responseSanctioned the employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing