TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Kelsey Research Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 3, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,228

Confidence

96%

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Kelsey Research Foundation (TX, Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2019-05-03 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,228 individuals. An employee inadvertently disclosed patients' email addresses via email. The covered entity sanctioned the involved workforce member, revised its policies and procedures, and trained all staff on the updated policies. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented. Breached information located on Email.

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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

May 3, 2019

Filed

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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.Confirmed1,228 affectedView incident

Name: Kelsey Research Foundation
norm: kelsey research
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Kelsey Research Foundation
norm: kelsey research
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,228nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Sanctioned the involved workforce member
Revised policies and procedures to better protect sensitive data
Trained all workforce members on the revised policies and procedures
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.

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.

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: May 3, 2019
Raw hash: e5f68609a4f1f4884271bda9f8433b9c920b499bc1cec68a1a3a6760edb2a39a

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Reporting entityKelsey Research Foundation

Victim entityKelsey Research Foundation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing