MISSOURIMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

SSM Health Care Corporation

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 28, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

29,579

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for SSM Health Care Corporation →5 incidents on file

SSM Health reported to HHS on 2017-12-28 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 29579 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A former employee used acquired PHI to fraudulently obtain prescriptions. The CE notified HHS, individuals, media, and law enforcement, provided identity theft protection, and implemented additional safeguards and staff retraining.

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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

Dec 28, 2017

Filed

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

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_c342b404d79d5a422017-12-29 · +1dVerified

Name: SSM Health Care Corporation
norm: ssm health care
Domain: ssmhealth.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: SSM Health Care Corporation
norm: ssm health care
Domain: ssmhealth.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 29,579nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Notified local law enforcement
Posted substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary identity theft protection services to affected individuals
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI
Retrained its staff
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRDec 28 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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: Dec 28, 2017
Raw hash: f20d9e2867030d5b34b48c2fc2c72dadfed8df3f7372cde6c976582270eab468

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySSM Health Care Corporation

Victim entitySSM Health Care Corporation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing