NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Inc.
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Full breach record for The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Inc. →Mount Sinai Medical Center (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-10-04 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 1,586 individuals. A trash vendor placed two garbage bags of PHI in an open box outside the Department of Preventive Medicine with regular trash. PHI included patient names, dates of service, payer information, clinical information, mental health information, and Social Security numbers (Paper/Films). CE retrieved the materials, retrained staff, and sanctioned the responsible supervisor. OCR provided TA on accounting of disclosures.
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.Confirmed1,586 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 4, 2013
- Raw hash
- 44f46e25abcc9ac456150249f87c0e419b0d796cd339ace77400bd0ddebc7710
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Inc.norm: the mount sinai medical center
- Domain
- mountsinai.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Inc.norm: the mount sinai medical center
- Domain
- mountsinai.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,586
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR opened investigationOCR provided technical assistance regarding accounting of disclosuresCE assured OCR that disclosures would be documented
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.