NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

United Methodist Homes & Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 31, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

843

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for United Methodist Homes & Services →

United Methodist Homes (NY) reported an unauthorized disclosure of 843 residents' PHI after a workforce member emailed a spreadsheet containing resident names, medical record numbers, and contact details to a personal account. The entity notified HHS, media, and individuals, offered 12 months of credit monitoring, sanctioned the employee, and implemented email filtering and TLS encryption.

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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

Aug 31, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed843 affectedView incident

Name: United Methodist Homes & Services
norm: united methodist homes

Name: United Methodist Homes & Services
norm: united methodist homes
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 843
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1534 Internal Device
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHS

During the incident: Sanctioned the responsible workforce member
Implemented an email application that filters and quarantines any outgoing emails that contain ePHI
Enhanced Transport Layer Security (TLS) functionality to automatically encrypt such outgoing emails
Changes made: Conduct a risk analysis
Implement a corresponding remediation plan
Take certain actions to formalize its information system activity review activities
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: Aug 31, 2018
Raw hash: 1678cf4672bd9fc7b2b826c5fa93e441dc42fae2d0dd6531260e52d620fa0598

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Reporting entityUnited Methodist Homes & Services

Victim entityUnited Methodist Homes & Services

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseSanctioned the responsible workforce member

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing