CONNECTICUTAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

United Community & Family Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 12, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,000

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for United Community & Family Services →

United Community & Family Services (CT) reported to HHS on 2016-04-12 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting approximately 1,095 individuals (1,000 per HHS portal count). The CE mistakenly sent a mass email advertising dental services to current and former patients with all recipients' email addresses visible to each other. PHI involved included names embedded in email addresses and the implied suggestion that recipients had received dental services. Breached information was located in Email. No business associate was involved. OCR investigated; the CE revised policies, retrained staff, and issued ongoing HIPAA reminders.

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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 12, 2016

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.Confirmed1,000 affectedView incident

Name: United Community & Family Services
norm: united community family
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: United Community & Family Services
norm: united community family
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (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 investigation; CE implemented plans to review and revise policies; staff re-trained on HIPAA policies; periodic HIPAA reminders issued.

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS
Provided breach notification to affected individuals
Provided breach notification to the media
Changes made: Reviewed and revised policies to ensure adequate safeguards of electronic PHI
Re-trained staff on HIPAA policies
Issued periodic HIPAA reminders to staff
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 12, 2016
Raw hash: 3df204dc2ece23acc65610caf7b81d33c172adc6f4f1c173fce1bba6b8b9d3ce

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Reporting entityUnited Community & Family Services

Victim entityUnited Community & Family Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing