NCAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Guilford County, North Carolina
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Full breach record for Guilford County, North Carolina →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.
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.Confirmed2,041 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
- May 4, 2017
- Raw hash
- 809678d0ba804dca1127a29f8fc1451d60630c565867fb2fbf37c3f74aa6b2d9
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Guilford County, North Carolinanorm: guilford county north carolina
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Guilford County, North Carolinanorm: guilford county north carolina
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,041
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- 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
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.