GEORGIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalContained

AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 16, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

472,413

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →3 incidents on file

AU Medical Center, INC reported to HHS on 2018-08-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 472413 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSN, driver's license numbers, financial info, and medical records. The CE implemented additional safeguards and retrained employees.

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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

Aug 16, 2018

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.Confirmed472,413 affectedView incident

Name: AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: au medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: au medical center
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 472,413nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice on its website
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained employees on email security
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained employees on email security
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: Aug 16, 2018
Raw hash: e264a40e42253d506e2e6433b1e8a4f5c42dde2939e1754eeae5401810a64bc9

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Reporting entityAU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Victim entityAU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing