WISCONSINHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 2, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

3,179

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC. →7 incidents on file

Medical College of Wisconsin reported to HHS on 2016-09-02 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3179 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An unauthorized third-party accessed an employee's email account containing PHI (names, addresses, DOB, MRNs, diagnoses, SSNs) for three days. The CE retained a forensic firm, retrained the employee, and implemented new safeguards.

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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

Sep 2, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,179 affectedView incident

Name: THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.
norm: the medical college of wisconsin
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.
norm: the medical college of wisconsin
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,179nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
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 LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained written assurances that the CE implemented the actions listed above
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retained a forensic firm
Retrained the employee with the compromised email account
Implemented new safeguards
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media and also posted a substitute notice
Changes made: Retrained the employee with the compromised email account
Implemented new safeguards
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: Sep 2, 2016
Raw hash: 88a7d38f1d14ef0ecb49f08f69317e263429608274af782afba85308904cc887

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Reporting entityTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.

Victim entityTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRetained a forensic firm

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing