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WISCONSINAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 30, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

6,923

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority →20 incidents on file

The covered entity (CE), University of Wisconsin and Clinics Authority, reported that a survey was erroneously mailed to family members of 6,923 patients rather than to the patients directly. The breach occurred because of formatting problems sent in a data file to the CE’s business associate (BA). The PHI included patients’ names and the names of patients’ healthcare providers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE initiated an internal investigation and developed an action plan to prevent similar disclosures, revised and redesigned processes for providing patient survey information, and trained pertinent staff on the new processes.

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

Sep 30, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,923 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.