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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan

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A benefits staff member at JHU/APL Medical and Dental Insurance Plan accidentally attached a file containing PHI to an email sent to 85 employees. The email included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and marital and disability status of approximately 692 individuals. All recipients were notified within 5 days and the email was deleted. Following an OCR investigation, the covered entity updated policies requiring peer review of bulk benefit emails, mandated PHI email encryption, took personnel action against the responsible employee, and committed to additional HIPAA and encryption training. Location of breached information: Other.

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.Confirmed692 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 6, 2010
Raw hash: 8214d4a0e980cb38f600767b9530aec709bcb2c829f90053d5b494c95c446dc7

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan
norm: johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory jhu apl medical and dental insurance plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan
norm: johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory jhu apl medical and dental insurance plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 692
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; covered entity updated policies and procedures following OCR investigation
Initial access: insider_action

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

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.