MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalResolved

SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 30, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

301,000

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City →

SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital – Jefferson City (MO) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-07-30 an Improper Disposal breach affecting approximately 301,000 individuals. PHI documents were found abandoned in the entity's vacated former hospital building. Breached information located on Paper/Films and included names, dates of birth, phone numbers, dates of treatment, medical record numbers, Social Security numbers, and insurance information. SSMH conducted an exhaustive search, recovered and secured all documents, revised document retention policies, and notified all affected individuals and media.

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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 30, 2018

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed301,000 affectedView incident

Name: SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
norm: ssm health st mary s hospital jefferson city
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
norm: ssm health st mary s hospital jefferson city
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 301,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions

During the incident: Exhaustive physical search of vacated former hospital
Secure transfer of recovered documents to new facility
Inventory and review of recovered documents
Changes made: Conducted exhaustive search of former hospital and removed all documents
Documents taken to a secure location at new hospital
Documents organized and inventoried for further review
Revised document retention policies and procedures
Breach notification disseminated to all affected individuals and the media
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.

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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 30, 2018
Raw hash: 9fb68f7f77a3566e2f4317437f3ca4b76e9a7a0efcf6b384b85099d43560f767

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Reporting entitySSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

Victim entitySSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseExhaustive physical search of vacated former hospital

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing