NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Psychiatric Associates of North Carolina, Professional Association

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 20, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,081

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Psychiatric Associates of North Carolina, Professional Association →

Psychiatric Associates of North Carolina, PA reported to HHS on 2020-04-20 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,081 individuals. An employee sent an email to 1,081 recipients and failed to use the blind carbon copy (BCC) function, exposing all recipients' email addresses. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided staff training, adopted new HIPAA policies and procedures, and received OCR technical assistance with assurances of corrective actions.

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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

Apr 20, 2020

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.Confirmed1,081 affectedView incident

Name: Psychiatric Associates of North Carolina, Professional Association
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Psychiatric Associates of North Carolina, Professional Association
norm: psychiatric associates of north carolina professional
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,081nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR provided technical assistance and obtained assurances of corrective actions.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Briefed staff members on the incident
Provided additional training to the responsible employee
Adopted new HIPAA policies and procedures
Will include new policies in annual HIPAA training
Changes made: Additional staff training on proper use of BCC in email
New HIPAA policies and procedures adopted
Annual HIPAA training updated
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: Apr 20, 2020
Raw hash: 613ab6cdc28332064025f193659db39f5280d23aa9beb9e2e423a01101956164

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Reporting entityPsychiatric Associates of North Carolina, Professional Association

Victim entityPsychiatric Associates of North Carolina, Professional Association

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing