MASSACHUSETTSPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

National Mentor Healthcare, LLC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 21, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,015

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for National Mentor Healthcare, LLC. →

National Mentor Healthcare, LLC. (MA) reported to HHS on 2018-03-21 a Loss affecting 1,015 individuals. Business associate Bullpen Financial, Inc. mailed an unencrypted USB drive to the CE's parent company as their business relationship was ending; the drive was lost in the mail and never recovered. The USB contained ePHI including demographic information for 1,015 individuals and clinical information for some. OCR provided technical assistance on breach notification timeliness, PHI definition, and BA agreement requirements. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device.

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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

Mar 21, 2018

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.Confirmed1,015 affectedView incident

Name: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC.
norm: national mentor healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC.
norm: national mentor healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,015nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding timeliness requirements of the breach notification rule, the definition of PHI, and BA agreement requirements under the HIPAA Rules.
Third party: via Bullpen Financial, Inc.

During the incident: Engaged outside forensics firm to investigate
Entered into a BA agreement with parent company
Changes made: BA agreement established with parent company
Forensic investigation conducted
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: Mar 21, 2018
Raw hash: e05407f7c90f529b303a5235a6fbf55c78e3ebac11a9c89b91dc37afcfcb692e

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Reporting entityNational Mentor Healthcare, LLC.

Victim entityNational Mentor Healthcare, LLC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEngaged outside forensics firm to investigate

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing