MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Mentor ABI, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 21, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

994

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Mentor ABI, LLC →

Mentor ABI, LLC reported to HHS on 2018-03-21 a Loss affecting 994 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A business associate (Bullpen Financial, Inc.) mailed an unencrypted USB drive containing ePHI (demographic and clinical info) which was lost in the mail.

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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

Mar 21, 2018

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_41c9df1b9f5b55b72018-03-20 · +1dVerified

Name: Mentor ABI, LLC
norm: mentor abi
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mentor ABI, LLC
norm: mentor abi
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 994nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the timeliness requirements of the breach notification rule, the definition of PHI, and the BA agreement requirements under the HIPAA Rules.
Third party: via Bullpen Financial, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Engaged an outside forensics firm to investigate
Entered into a BA agreement with its parent company
Provided breach notification to affected individuals
Changes made: Entered into a BA agreement with its parent company
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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Massachusetts State AGMar 20 · first

HHS OCR+1d · this page

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: Mar 21, 2018
Raw hash: f503fdf9af8fb4ec0330e0aca6e3b1e7398759fe353b4183453699bc85ea26cd

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMentor ABI, LLC

Victim entityMentor ABI, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEngaged an outside forensics firm to investigate

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing