NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 4, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

2,041

Confidence

98%

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Mecklenburg County, NC reported to HHS on 2017-05-04 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,041 individuals. The covered entity inadvertently disclosed DVDs containing PHI (names, services received, lab results, medical record numbers, addresses, dates of birth) in response to public records requests from two media outlets. OCR provided technical assistance; the CE revised HIPAA policies, retrained staff, and purchased new software/hardware.

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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

May 4, 2017

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,041 affectedView incident

Name: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,041nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the required elements of breach notification noticesOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above

During the incident: Provided timely breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, and to the media
Posted notification about the breach to its website
Changes made: Revised its HIPAA policies and procedures
Revised training modules
Retrained staff
Allocated funds to purchase software and hardware to improve its management of future public records requests
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: May 4, 2017
Raw hash: 809678d0ba804dca1127a29f8fc1451d60630c565867fb2fbf37c3f74aa6b2d9

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Reporting entityMecklenburg County, North Carolina

Victim entityMecklenburg County, North Carolina

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided timely breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, and to the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing