PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Penn Medicine

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 21, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

917

Confidence

69%

Penn Medicine reported to HHS on 2019-05-21 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 917 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee of a staffing agency impermissibly accessed and used patient PHI including names, DOB, SSN, and clinical information.

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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

May 21, 2019

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.Confirmed917 affectedView incident

Name: Penn Medicine
norm: penn medicine
Domain: pennmedicine.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Penn Medicine
norm: penn medicine
Domain: pennmedicine.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 917nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR reviewed the CE’s response to this incident which included the business associate agreement
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS and all potentially affected individuals
Required its staffing agencies to conduct more vigorous background checks for employees placed at the CE
Changes made: Required its staffing agencies to conduct more vigorous background checks for employees placed at the CE
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: May 21, 2019
Raw hash: 540f1ea152fa54da7e40b93d366cd0d31e4d7f8d1c3556e4d2844d7fbff7996c

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Reporting entityPenn Medicine

Victim entityPenn Medicine

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS and all potentially affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing