SOUTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Roper St. Francis Healthcare

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 17, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,634

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Roper St. Francis Healthcare →7 incidents on file

Roper St. Francis Healthcare reported to HHS on 2020-01-17 an Improper Disposal affecting 1,634 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. Documents containing PHI (names, diagnoses, lab results, medications) were disposed of in regular trash. The responsible employee was sanctioned and staff retrained.

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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

Jan 17, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,634 affectedView incident

Name: Roper St. Francis Healthcare
norm: roper st francis healthcare
Domain: rsfh.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Roper St. Francis Healthcare
norm: roper st francis healthcare
Domain: rsfh.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,634nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance on the HIPAA Privacy and Security RulesOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Retrained its staff on the proper methods of safeguarding PHI
Implemented additional physical safeguards to prevent incidents of this nature
Changes made: Retrained its staff on the proper methods of safeguarding PHI
Implemented additional physical safeguards to prevent incidents of this nature
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: Jan 17, 2020
Raw hash: 074323ae9942d9c0297543ed66f12a99cce2586e6bb8ccb2639e664dfd067fcd

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Reporting entityRoper St. Francis Healthcare

Victim entityRoper St. Francis Healthcare

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing