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IOWAHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa

bd_160094c3e72e3b3f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 25, 2016

To disclose

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Affected

15,625

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa →4 incidents on file

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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 25, 2016

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.Confirmed15,625 affectedView incident

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.