DisclosureLens
SOUTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 13, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

1,758

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION →3 incidents on file

Medical University of South Carolina reported to HHS on 2023-11-13 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1758 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate sent an email containing PHI (names only) to the wrong recipients. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and retrained the employee 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

Nov 13, 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.Confirmed1,758 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.