MARYLANDMisuseHealthcareHealthcareEmail MisuseMisuse OtherCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
Columbus Cardiology Associates, LLC
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Full breach record for Columbus Cardiology Associates, LLC →Cardiology Associates (MD) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-08-10 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 907 individuals. A Cardiology Associates employee emailed patients' PHI to her personal email address without a legitimate business purpose. Breached information was located in Email. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The employee was terminated and the FBI was notified. OCR reviewed the CE's risk assessment for Security Rule compliance.
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.Confirmed907 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 10, 2016
- Raw hash
- e37d2c732b550b73bf924cbe6927df9d33b1fa1ca922c72917f02263aacff02f
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Columbus Cardiology Associates, LLCnorm: columbus cardiology associates
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Columbus Cardiology Associates, LLCnorm: columbus cardiology associates
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 907
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed the covered entity's risk assessment to ensure compliance with the Security Rule.Federal Bureau of Investigation notified.
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.