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WISCONSINPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHigh

Western Wisconsin Medical Association, S.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 25, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

2,400

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Western Wisconsin Medical Association, S.C. →

An employee of a cleaning service stole paper-based protected health information (PHI) for approximately 2,400 patients of Western Wisconsin Medical Association's River Falls Medical Clinic during the summer of 2012. The data, which included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical/insurance numbers, was taken from unsecured shredding bins. In response, the clinic implemented secure bins, updated its PHI disposal policies, and retrained staff.

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

Jan 25, 2013

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.Confirmed2,400 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.