NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Middletown Medical

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 29, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

63,551

Confidence

69%

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Middletown Medical P.C. reported to HHS on 2018-03-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 63,551 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A misconfigured radiology interface application permitted unauthorized access to patient ePHI.

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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

Mar 29, 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.Confirmed63,551 affectedView incident

Name: Middletown Medical
norm: middletown medical
Domain: middletownmedical.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Middletown Medical
norm: middletown medical
Domain: middletownmedical.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 63,551nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed

During the incident: Secured the radiology application so that only authorized staff could access it
Amended its policies and procedures to require that all systems and their security settings be tested in a test environment prior to live deployment
Trained relevant workforce members regarding this policy change
Sanctioned the workforce member responsible for this incident
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Perform a risk analysis and establish a risk management plan
Document the unauthorized disclosure of its patients’ ePHI for accounting of disclosure purposes
Perform a technical and non-technical evaluation in response to environmental or operational changes
Regularly review records of activity in all information systems
Implement procedures for monitoring log-in attempts
Implement audit controls and valid encryption processes
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: Mar 29, 2018
Raw hash: 95a98c34221ccc97e3d21aadf6467be3c202b25a3f92b518f140aef01b5f017b

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Reporting entityMiddletown Medical

Victim entityMiddletown Medical

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseSecured the radiology application so that only authorized staff could access it

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing