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NYU Langone Hospitals

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 6, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,141

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for NYU Langone Hospitals →5 incidents on file

NYU Langone Hospitals reported to HHS on 2022-01-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,141 individuals. An affiliated practice mailed PHI to the wrong recipients; the letters contained only the names of intended recipients. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice online. The affiliated practice subsequently strengthened its administrative safeguards.

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

Jan 6, 2022

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.Confirmed1,141 affectedView incident

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.