DisclosureLens
PENNSYLVANIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 5, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

36,086

Confidence

68%

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center reported to HHS on 2021-02-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 36,086 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees of a business associate were victims of an email phishing scheme, exposing ePHI including names, DOB, addresses, driver's license info, SSNs, financial info, and diagnoses.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 5, 2021

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.Confirmed36,086 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.