VIRGINIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 17, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

3,029

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co. →

MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co. reported to HHS on 2018-04-17 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3029 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A business associate sent letters on behalf of the covered entity that were misaligned, resulting in individuals receiving letters with one page that contained other individuals’ protected health information (PHI), specifically, names and addresses.

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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

Apr 17, 2018

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.Confirmed3,029 affectedView incident

Name: MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.
norm: maximus inc business ink
Industry: Business Associate

Name: MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.
norm: maximus inc business ink
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,029nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the CE's risk analysis to ensure compliance with the Security RuleOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
Third party: via MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.business associate

During the incident: The BA retrained its staff members and updated its procedures
The CE increased its auditing of the BA
The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: The CE increased its auditing of the BA
The BA retrained its staff members and updated its 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: Apr 17, 2018
Raw hash: fd67a22af8b7bebdcbedee7ad17949cfa4d85e978849d2cf97e2afb87d9d7d3e

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Reporting entityMAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.

Victim entityMAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseThe BA retrained its staff members and updated its procedures

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing