FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMedium

Birmingham Printing and Publishing Inc.

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Full breach record for Birmingham Printing and Publishing Inc. →

On January 24, 2014, Birmingham Printing and Publishing, Inc, acting as a business associate, reported a breach affecting 1,085 individuals. The incident, discovered on September 6, 2013, involved the mislabeling of invitations for an event for cancer survivor patients, where incorrect names were printed on envelopes with correct addresses. In response, the business associate re-sent the invitations with a letter of explanation, and the covered entity terminated its contract with the business associate, bringing mailings in-house. OCR provided technical assistance regarding breach notification requirements.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified20 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ 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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,085 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: Jan 24, 2014
Raw hash: 04f913d0add299bf011fa6641351c0e3d060a0c84493dda819ae1280be21fb12

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Birmingham Printing and Publishing Inc.
norm: birmingham printing and publishing
Industry: Business Associate

Victim entity

Name: Birmingham Printing and Publishing Inc.
norm: birmingham printing and publishing
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Sep 6, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,085
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance

Compliance

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(140 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: Sep 6, 2013
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Sep 6, 2013 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.