AZAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTLowResolved
Southwestern Eye Center
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Full breach record for Southwestern Eye Center →Southwestern Eye Center (AZ) reported to HHS on August 1, 2018 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 667 individuals. During a mass mailing of patient refund checks in April 2018, the CE's business associate used an electronic mail merge that mixed up patient names and addresses on paper refund checks. Breached information included demographic data. The CE re-issued checks, terminated the BA contract, implemented auditing controls, and revised its mailing validation procedure.
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.Confirmed667 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
- Aug 1, 2018
- Raw hash
- 3256eb0ece8c979ce179b4aecfa2a3b46b5a3faa07c8a4d148821db31f6228d8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Southwestern Eye Centernorm: southwestern eye center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Southwestern Eye Centernorm: southwestern eye center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Aug 1, 2018
- Affected individuals
- 667
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained corrective action assurances
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: Aug 1, 2018— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.