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NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

AHRC Nassau

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 6, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,200

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for AHRC Nassau →2 incidents on file

AHRC Nassau (NY) reported to HHS on 2016-01-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,200 individuals. The covered entity mailed questionnaire surveys that inadvertently contained other clients' PHI, including 1,638 clients' names and types of services received. Breached information was on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and implemented a two-tier mailing list verification process and HIPAA retraining for IT staff. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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 6, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,200 affectedView incident

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.