CONNECTICUTHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Merritt Healthcare Advisors

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 15, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

88,740

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Merritt Healthcare Advisors →

Merritt Healthcare Advisors reported to HHS on 2023-03-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 88740 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 88,740 individuals. Upon investigation, it was determined that the entity is not a covered entity or business associate; OCR closed the matter.

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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 15, 2023

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_646c6628a21ae3222023-03-14 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_d9a9b56c70539fb82023-03-20 · +5dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_f0e65cfa063cb1142023-03-20 · +5dVerified

Name: Merritt Healthcare Advisors
norm: merritt healthcare advisors
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Merritt Healthcare Advisors
norm: merritt healthcare advisors
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 88,740nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR closed the matter
Third party: via Merritt Healthcare Advisorsbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Conducted investigation into email phishing scheme
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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGMar 14 · first

HHS OCR+1d · this page

California State AG+6d

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Mar 14 (MA), last Mar 20 (NH) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 15, 2023
Raw hash: 89777c30a1f1980fcceef048f8b0857c6ce326741c3778f7e3e24c9eb4c3cdbb

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMerritt Healthcare Advisors

Victim entityMerritt Healthcare Advisors

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseConducted investigation into email phishing scheme

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing