MINNESOTAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Miracle Ear

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 7, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

3,560

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Miracle Ear →4 incidents on file

Miracle-Ear Flagship, LLC reported to HHS on 2023-07-07 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3560 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee of a business associate was targeted by an email phishing scheme, compromising PHI including addresses and treatment information. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals and terminated its relationship with the BA.

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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

Jul 7, 2023

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.Confirmed3,560 affectedView incident

Name: Miracle Ear
norm: miracle ear
Domain: miracle-ear.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Miracle Ear
norm: miracle ear
Domain: miracle-ear.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,560nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS and the affected individuals
Terminated its relationship with the BA
Changes made: Terminated its relationship with the BA
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.

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: Jul 7, 2023
Raw hash: 3ae815796258b1293a660212ce64a65b5eaf681ffd2a4eacf8b9e013b639e8b9

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Reporting entityMiracle Ear

Victim entityMiracle Ear

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS and the affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing