ARAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Nephropathology Associates, PLC
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Full breach record for Nephropathology Associates, PLC →On July 30, 2015, a physician at Nephropathology Associates, PLC (AR) emailed a spreadsheet containing 1,260 patients' names and clinical information to an outside vendor under consideration for a potential project — an impermissible disclosure. The CE notified referring hospitals, HHS, and affected individuals. The vendor confirmed destruction of all PHI received. The CE issued a written warning and retraining to the responsible employee and obtained OCR assurance of corrective action completion. Breached information was located in Email.
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.Confirmed1,260 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
- Oct 16, 2015
- Raw hash
- f430208f31d0db9d3fdccb943968463508fdd625252932e47cfe12bffebae3b5
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Nephropathology Associates, PLCnorm: nephropathology associates
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Nephropathology Associates, PLCnorm: nephropathology associates
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,260
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach notification filed; OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
- 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.