DisclosureLens
NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 29, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

3,437

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services →6 incidents on file

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported to HHS on 2025-09-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3437 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. An employee of a business associate mailed PHI (clinical and demographic) to wrong recipients. The CE and BA implemented additional safeguards and retrained workforce.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 29, 2025

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.Confirmed3,437 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.