MASSACHUSETTSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Leominster Dermatology LLP
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Full breach record for Leominster Dermatology LLP →Leominster Dermatology LLP reported to HHS on 2018-09-13 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 500 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. Patient records containing PHI (demographic and clinical) were disposed of in a dumpster without shredding. The entity implemented new HIPAA-compliant disposal procedures, trained staff, and hired a new BA for shredding.
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.Confirmed500 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
- Sep 13, 2018
- Raw hash
- 8574a915973ec06a1c604f0be5636ed6cc48c7e26e54f5f554582103360d335c
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Leominster Dermatology LLPnorm: leominster dermatology
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Leominster Dermatology LLPnorm: leominster dermatology
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 500
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR opened an investigation
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.