MIAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareProgramming ErrorMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
H.E.L.P. Financial Corporation
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9,475 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
- Dec 3, 2010
- Raw hash
- cec620fe2279386e0e66bba763699bfc3b4907cca6e925f6b3c46b7d435daf5f
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- H.E.L.P. Financial Corporationnorm: help financial
Victim entity
- Name
- H.E.L.P. Financial Corporationnorm: help financial
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 9,475
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1565 Data Manipulation
- Threat actor
- Partner
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.