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Hospital for Special Surgery

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Full breach record for Hospital for Special Surgery →

Hospital for Special Surgery (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-03-17 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 647 individuals. An employee sent an email to research study participants without using BCC, inadvertently revealing each participant's email address and general research study information to other recipients. The ePHI was transmitted via email. No business associate was involved. Following the breach, the employee received one-on-one HIPAA training, and the CE committed to revising its email policy and increasing HIPAA training frequency to at least three times per year.

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.Confirmed647 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: Mar 17, 2016
Raw hash: 787025ce23f020f48e13e30914a5148e75d6f21b011ac0b7c86fbb4fdee462b8

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Hospital for Special Surgery
norm: hospital for special surgery
Domain: hss.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Hospital for Special Surgery
norm: hospital for special surgery
Domain: hss.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 647
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMETADATA
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR notifiedOCR investigation conductedtechnical assistance providedcorrective action expected
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.