CTHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Merritt Healthcare Advisors
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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.
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.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_d9a9b56c70539fb8California State AGfiled 2023-03-20(5d gap)Candidate
- bd_f0e65cfa063cb114New Hampshire State AGfiled 2023-03-20(5d gap)Verified
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 15, 2023
- Raw hash
- 89777c30a1f1980fcceef048f8b0857c6ce326741c3778f7e3e24c9eb4c3cdbb
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Merritt Healthcare Advisorsnorm: merritt healthcare advisors
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Merritt Healthcare Advisorsnorm: merritt healthcare advisors
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 88,740
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASIC
- 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
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.