One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Jan 12, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_4ea6c831f1b94667 · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
WA
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Western Washington Medical Group Inc. reported to HHS on 2018-01-12 a Improper Disposal affecting 842 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A janitorial service comingled shredded PHI with regular trash, exposing patient names, addresses, birthdates, and medical data. The entity provided breach notification, identity theft protection, and retrained staff.
Affected (this filing): 842
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.