MISSOURIHackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Sheet Metal Local 36 Welfare Fund

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 15, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

4,560

Confidence

67%

Sheet Metal Local 36 Welfare Fund reported to HHS on 2013-07-15 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4560 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A business associate employee inadvertently uploaded Excel spreadsheets containing PHI (names, addresses, DOB, SSN) to an unsecure website. An unknown entity in China accessed and exfiltrated the data. The business associate, People Resources Corporation, removed the data and implemented additional security controls.

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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

Jul 15, 2013

Filed

—

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.Confirmed4,560 affectedView incident

Name: Sheet Metal Local 36 Welfare Fund
norm: sheet metal local 36 welfare fund
Domain: sheetmetal36.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sheet Metal Local 36 Welfare Fund
norm: sheet metal local 36 welfare fund
Domain: sheetmetal36.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,560nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage ObjectT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: The CE provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE and BA implemented the corrective actions listed
Third party: via People Resources Corporationbusiness associate
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
The BA immediately removed the protected health information (PHI) from the unsecure website
Confirmed that the PHI was no longer available on its websites or through internet search engines
The BA adopted additional protections to prevent future unauthorized disclosures (including management level review of any documents posted to its websites)
The CE met with each of its vendors to review the vendors’ security procedures and protocols and instituted a review program
Reviewed its own internal procedures
Changes made: The BA adopted additional protections to prevent future unauthorized disclosures (including management level review of any documents posted to its websites)
The CE met with each of its vendors to review the vendors’ security procedures and protocols and instituted a review program
Reviewed its own internal procedures
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: Jul 15, 2013
Raw hash: 56913dccccf071ad52aab609c3107363570336b8bc611bb5d93b8508855710b5

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Reporting entitySheet Metal Local 36 Welfare Fund

Victim entitySheet Metal Local 36 Welfare Fund

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing