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Braun Internal Medicine, P.C.

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On May 17, 2017, Braun Internal Medicine, P.C. (GA) sent a bulk email to 680 patients regarding a business transition without using the blind copy (BCC) feature, exposing all recipients' email addresses to one another. The exposed PHI was limited to email addresses; no other PHI was disclosed. The covered entity sanctioned the responsible employee, implemented new email PHI safeguarding policies, trained all staff, and issued breach notifications to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action. Breach submitted to HHS on 2017-07-14. Breached information located in Email.

HIPAA clockDiscovered May 17, 2017 → Notified Jul 14, 201758d ✓ HIPAA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed680 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: Jul 14, 2017
Raw hash: e9ed4a551dcdf91d25f0bb311a19201f87d9bc8237a25410b32c1ace39b21dd7

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Braun Internal Medicine, P.C.
norm: braun internal medicine
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Braun Internal Medicine, P.C.
norm: braun internal medicine
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: May 17, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 14, 2017
Affected individuals: 680
Data types: HEALTH_BASICMETADATA
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented voluntary corrective actions.
Initial access: insider_action

Compliance

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HIPAA 60-day OK · 58dHHS notified · 58d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: May 17, 2017
→ Notified: Jul 14, 2017
58d 60 days HIPAA 60-day OK
HIPAA
Discovered: May 17, 2017
→ Notified: Jul 14, 2017
58d regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: May 17, 2017 → Notified: Jul 14, 2017	58d	60 days	HIPAA 60-day OK
HIPAA	Discovered: May 17, 2017 → Notified: Jul 14, 2017	58d	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

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