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IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Tri-State Specialists, LLP

bd_c09bdc0a00284146 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 29, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

17,050

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Tri-State Specialists, LLP →

Tri-State Specialists, LLP (Iowa) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-10-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 17,050 individuals. An employee sent an email containing ePHI — specifically names and email addresses — to wrong recipients. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The responsible employee was sanctioned and retrained alongside other employees. The CE also implemented additional administrative safeguards. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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

Oct 29, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed17,050 affectedView incident

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.