TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)High

Shred-it International Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 11, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

277,014

Confidence

93%

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Shred-it International Inc. (TX), acting as a Business Associate, reported to HHS OCR on 2013-07-11 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 277,014 individuals. The breached information was located on 'Other' media. Shred-it is a document-destruction services company; the improper disposal of PHI-bearing materials implicates its core service function. No further detail was provided in the web description.

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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

Jul 11, 2013

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed277,014 affectedView incident

Name: Shred-it International Inc.
norm: shred it

Name: Shred-it International Inc.
norm: shred it
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 277,014nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report filed 2013-07-11

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: Jul 11, 2013
Raw hash: 964e398fb611293291e0e513124f9203f074ed985f02d4bbc235bcf5fdddfce8

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Reporting entityShred-it International Inc.

Victim entityShred-it International Inc.

IncidentMisconfiguration

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing