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MISSOURISocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

The Children's Mercy Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 31, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

65,930

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for The Children's Mercy Hospital →5 incidents on file

Children's Mercy Hospital (MO) reported to HHS on 2018-01-31 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 65,930 individuals. Multiple employees were victims of a phishing attack that compromised PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. In response, the CE retrained employees on email security and implemented additional technical safeguards. No business associate was involved.

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

Jan 31, 2018

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.Confirmed65,930 affectedView incident

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.