TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
TMA Practice Management Group
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Full breach record for TMA Practice Management Group →TMA Practice Management Group (Business Associate, TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2014-03-17 an Improper Disposal/Loss breach affecting 2,260 individuals. McBroom Clinic, PA (the covered entity) copied patient PHI — including clinical and insurance/payment information — to an unencrypted USB flash drive and sent it to the BA on January 7, 2014. The BA received an empty package and discarded it. Breached information was located on an Other Portable Electronic Device. OCR investigation prompted encryption procedures, risk analysis, and staff training improvements.
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.Confirmed2,260 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
- Mar 17, 2014
- Raw hash
- 480a84c1e6b9aa4c2dd867dba2f8172b878fcb289c9a4ddea31890bb277d3bcf
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- TMA Practice Management Groupnorm: tma practice management
Victim entity
- Name
- TMA Practice Management Groupnorm: tma practice management
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 21, 2014
- Affected individuals
- 2,260
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- OCR investigation conducted; CE advised on risk analysis improvements and staff training on policies and procedures
- Third party
- via TMA Practice Management Groupbusiness associate
- Initial access
- removable_media
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: Feb 21, 2014— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.