NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MetadataLowResolved

Hospital for Special Surgery

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 17, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

647

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Hospital for Special Surgery →3 incidents on file

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.

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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

Mar 17, 2016

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.Confirmed647 affectedView incident

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 647nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Metadata
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR notifiedOCR investigation conductedtechnical assistance providedcorrective action expected
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified OCR and affected individuals
Responsible employee re-trained with one-on-one, in-person HIPAA Privacy and Information Security Training
Increased in-person HIPAA training to at least three times a year
Agreed to revise e-mail policy to incorporate additional safeguarding measures
Agreed to retrain staff on revised email policy
Changes made: Revised e-mail policy with additional safeguards for email use
Enhanced HIPAA training frequency (minimum 3x per year)
Individual re-training of responsible employee
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.

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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: Mar 17, 2016
Raw hash: 787025ce23f020f48e13e30914a5148e75d6f21b011ac0b7c86fbb4fdee462b8

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Reporting entityHospital for Special Surgery

Victim entityHospital for Special Surgery

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified OCR and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing