FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLow
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
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Full breach record for BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. →Baxter Healthcare reported to HHS on October 10, 2016, an incident of unauthorized access/disclosure affecting 992 individuals. On September 15, 2016, an employee sent an email to patients with their email addresses visible in the 'To' field, exposing them to other recipients. The breached information was located in an email. In response, the employee was reeducated and sanctioned, and the broader workforce received additional HIPAA training.
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.Confirmed992 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
- Oct 10, 2016
- Raw hash
- 93995333695bd82cc61e7f0c77fcf43e5fea10823d41a889581d368c1c675689
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.norm: baxter international
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.norm: baxter international
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 992
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained written assurances that the CE implemented corrective actionsFiled a police report
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.