IOWAHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
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Full breach record for Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa →Mercy Iowa City (IA) reported to HHS on 2016-03-25 a Hacking/IT Incident (cyber-attack) affecting the ePHI of approximately 15,625 individuals. Breached information was located on Desktop Computer, Email, and Network Server. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided substitute notice, and implemented additional technical safeguards and identity theft protection/credit monitoring services. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed15,625 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 25, 2016
- Raw hash
- 511b87b274c9ed7d096ae346a54501876c50f7755ebfa25703f454ebfb3cc339
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowanorm: mercy hospital iowa city iowa
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowanorm: mercy hospital iowa city iowa
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 15,625
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified; corrective action assurances obtained
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.