Flowers Hospital
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Full breach record for Flowers Hospital →Flowers Hospital (Dothan, AL) reported to HHS on 2014-04-25 a Theft breach affecting 629 individuals. On February 27, 2014, law enforcement notified the hospital that paper facesheets (clinical and demographic information) were found in a hospital employee's possession upon arrest. An internal investigation indicated the employee may have accessed or shared the records of up to 1,208 individuals. Breached information was located on paper/films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented corrective access-control and storage procedures. OCR obtained assurances of remediation.
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
- Apr 25, 2014
- Raw hash
- c9f598683f657260b960ede93d931d7c96695b66c846c484d74746ad5e2a5b67
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- Flowers Hospitalnorm: flowers hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Flowers Hospitalnorm: flowers hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 27, 2014
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 629
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented corrective actions.
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Feb 27, 2014→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.