MICHIGANMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Covenant Medical Center, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 20, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

6,197

Confidence

66%

Covenant Medical Center, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-01-20 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 6197 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee accessed patient records without business purpose.

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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

Feb 1, 2016

Begins

Jan 20, 2017

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,197 affectedView incident

Name: Covenant Medical Center, Inc.
norm: covenant medical center
Domain: covenanthealthcare.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Covenant Medical Center, Inc.
norm: covenant medical center
Domain: covenanthealthcare.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2016 – Nov 21, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,197nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
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 AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Sanctioned the involved employee
Retrained staff
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Offered affected individuals credit monitoring
Changes made: Retrained staff
Sanctioned the involved employee
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: Jan 20, 2017
Raw hash: 4c9558694d98478130cc3df1b2110026f3010469faa76db6605e31c6d755790f

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Reporting entityCovenant Medical Center, Inc.

Victim entityCovenant Medical Center, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the involved employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing