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Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa

bd_312e904dda8c788e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 24, 2020

Filed

Dec 1, 2020

To disclose

23 weeks

Affected

8state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa4 incidents on file

Mercy Iowa City notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a phishing incident where an employee's email account was compromised from May 15, 2020, to June 24, 2020. The unauthorized party accessed personal information including names, SSNs, and medical/insurance data. Eight New Hampshire residents were affected. Mercy secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

undetected · 40 days
discovery → filing · 23 weeks / 160 days

May 15, 2020

Begins

Jun 24, 2020

Discovered

Dec 1, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

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

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGNov 13 · first
Massachusetts State AGNov 13 · first
HHS OCRNov 13 · first
New Hampshire State AG+18d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 13 (ME), last Dec 1 (NH) — a 18-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.