MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Worcester Eye Consultants

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 7, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

2,634

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Worcester Eye Consultants →

Worcester Eye Consultants reported to HHS on 2019-06-07 a Loss affecting 2634 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A medical device containing PHI was lost in transit, shipped by business associate Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.

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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

Jun 7, 2019

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.Confirmed2,634 affectedView incident

Name: Worcester Eye Consultants
norm: worcester eye consultants
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Worcester Eye Consultants
norm: worcester eye consultants
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,634nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding the execution of business associate agreements
Third party: via Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Notified OCR
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
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: Jun 7, 2019
Raw hash: 49bc57f693ee512b5d5c46211174230cc1b3b7c94626a99b87110bbc0567fa36

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Reporting entityWorcester Eye Consultants

Victim entityWorcester Eye Consultants

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing