NEW YORKMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 6, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

29,629

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Columbia University Irving Medical Center →2 incidents on file

Columbia University Irving Medical Center reported to HHS on 2024-05-06 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 29,629 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. An employee posted PHI including names, DOBs, and lab results on the Internet.

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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 6, 2024

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_fc35197ec9f891692024-05-07 · +1dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_1657d292e1d42f3e2024-05-01 · +5dVerified

Name: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
norm: columbia university irving medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
norm: columbia university irving medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 29,629nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Secured the data
Provided staff additional training in its requirements to protect and secure PHI
Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Provided staff additional training in its requirements to protect and secure PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Illinois State AGMay 1 · first

HHS OCR+5d · this page

Montana State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing May 1 (IL), last May 7 (MT) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 6, 2024
Raw hash: d34f01da656881546f3079544ac8989d6ba5a2b11d6c797b457682519c93ac86

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityColumbia University Irving Medical Center

Victim entityColumbia University Irving Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSecured the data

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing