VAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.
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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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,029 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
- Apr 17, 2018
- Raw hash
- fd67a22af8b7bebdcbedee7ad17949cfa4d85e978849d2cf97e2afb87d9d7d3e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.norm: maximus inc business ink
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- MAXIMUS, Inc. / Business Ink, Co.norm: maximus inc business ink
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 3,029
- Data types
- PHIIDENTITY_BASIC
- 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
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.