FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
YALE UNIVERSITY
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Full breach record for YALE UNIVERSITY →Yale University reported to HHS on October 17, 2018, that a mailing error affected 1,102 individuals. Due to a collating error discovered in September 2018, letters containing demographic and clinical information were sent to incorrect addresses. The breach involved paper records. In response, the university sanctioned and retrained employees and updated its mailing procedures. OCR reviewed the university's policies and confirmed compliance.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified7 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.Confirmed1,102 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
- Oct 17, 2018
- Raw hash
- 2eeb3dcf1f08a479bc309e3fc3016af9eda89980bc509b873c02dcb0a533a929
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- YALE UNIVERSITYnorm: yale university
- Domain
- yale.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- YALE UNIVERSITYnorm: yale university
- Domain
- yale.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 1, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,102
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR reviewed the CE’s policies and proceduresOCR obtained assurances that the CE provided breach notification
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(46 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: Sep 1, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.