TNAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM
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Full breach record for WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEM →Wellmont Health System reported to HHS on 2015-04-24 a Improper Disposal affecting 1726 individuals. Breached information located on Other, Paper/Films. An employee disposed of hand-written notes containing PHI (demographic and clinical) at a recycling center.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,726 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 24, 2015
- Raw hash
- 557fcfbf4125b065e74f17596dc6bf46c6628fe23194853b82912a512456db30
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEMnorm: wellmont health system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- WELLMONT HEALTH SYSTEMnorm: wellmont health system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 1, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,726
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Mar 1, 2015→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.