FLORIDASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialHealth (basic)CriticalResolved

MEDNAX Services, Inc.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 16, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,442,997

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for MEDNAX Services, Inc. →2 incidents on file

MEDNAX Services, Inc. (now Pediatrix Medical Group), acting as a HIPAA Business Associate, reported to HHS OCR on 2020-12-16 that an email phishing attack compromising multiple employee mailboxes exposed PHI of 1,442,997 individuals. Affected data included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, claims/financial information, and treatment information. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, media, and provided substitute notice; remediation included additional technical safeguards and staff retraining on email security.

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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

Dec 16, 2020

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 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_1253ca6eeacfa8792020-12-16Candidate
Montana State AGbd_3c1d1683a865d9562020-12-16Verified
Oregon State AGbd_cc27b0970ea647262020-12-16Verified
Washington State AGbd_ef1f98abb4d60c8e2020-12-16Verified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_0556c2fd8b6abc362020-12-23 · +7dVerified
California State AGbd_11476f6352fa26262020-12-23 · +7dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_c82e812b30165e942021-01-12 · +27dVerified

Name: MEDNAX Services, Inc.
norm: mednax services

Name: MEDNAX Services, Inc.
norm: mednax services
Industry: Healthcare
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,442,997nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
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 · 8 filings · 7 states

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California State AGDec 16 · first

Montana State AGDec 16 · first

Oregon State AGDec 16 · first

Washington State AGDec 16 · first

HHS OCRDec 16 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

California State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+27d

Pattern: first filing Dec 16 (CA), last Jan 12 (NH) — a 27-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: Dec 16, 2020
Raw hash: ed776d8cf8241c9f5e4823fe6967c3379f651938d4b5ce9b62d4ab26056d0b48

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMEDNAX Services, Inc.

Victim entityMEDNAX Services, Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing