TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICHigh
Shred-it International Inc.
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Full breach record for Shred-it International Inc. →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.
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.Confirmed277,014 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
- Jul 11, 2013
- Raw hash
- 964e398fb611293291e0e513124f9203f074ed985f02d4bbc235bcf5fdddfce8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Shred-it International Inc.norm: shred it
Victim entity
- Name
- Shred-it International Inc.norm: shred it
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 277,014
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach report filed 2013-07-11
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.