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MICHIGANAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareProgramming ErrorMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

H.E.L.P. Financial Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 3, 2010

To disclose

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Affected

9,475

Confidence

92%
Full breach record for H.E.L.P. Financial Corporation →

H.E.L.P. Financial Corporation (a business associate, MI) reported to HHS on 2010-12-03 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 9,475 individuals. A programming error in the BA's IT system caused patient PHI — including names, medical record numbers, and account balances — to be printed on letters sent to other patients (Paper/Films). The BA corrected the error, implemented quality checks, notified affected individuals, and the covered entity notified local media.

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

Dec 3, 2010

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.Confirmed9,475 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.