MONTANAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Western Health Screening

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 14, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

15,326

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Western Health Screening →

Western Health Screening (MT), a business associate providing onsite blood screenings at hospital health fairs, reported a Theft breach to HHS on 2017-04-14 affecting 15,326 individuals. On February 7, 2017, an employee's car was broken into while en route to a health fair; a portable jump drive containing unencrypted ePHI (names, addresses, zip codes, SSNs) and five encrypted laptops were stolen. Only the unencrypted jump drive resulted in a PHI exposure. Post-breach remediation included employee sanctions, retraining, and encryption of all jump drives. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.

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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

Feb 7, 2017

Begins

Apr 14, 2017

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed15,326 affectedView incident

Name: Western Health Screening
norm: western health screening
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Western Health Screening
norm: western health screening
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 15,326nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that Western Health implemented corrective actions.

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Employee involved was sanctioned.
Employees were retrained.
All jump drives were encrypted.
Changes made: Encryption applied to all portable electronic storage devices (jump drives).
Employee retraining on data handling protocols.
Employee sanctions for non-compliance.
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: Apr 14, 2017
Raw hash: dd588660af8f5f5e856d6237b606eb53165afc3aaa06d24c234f1ec22195d0ba

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Reporting entityWestern Health Screening

Victim entityWestern Health Screening

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing