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MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.
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Full breach record for MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc. →MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc. (UT) reported to HHS on 2021-12-23 a ransomware attack on a Network Server affecting 39,447 individuals. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license numbers, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, health insurance and claims information, financial information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and provided substitute notice. Mitigation included credit monitoring, enhanced safeguards, and staff retraining. OCR provided technical assistance.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed39,447 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Dec 23, 2021
- Raw hash
- 5f36a9d6524c30cea6fe0b31068a8f9b004215992a3e673e454a1883cc4bc34d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.norm: medquest pharmacy
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.norm: medquest pharmacy
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultRetail & Consumerllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 39,447
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR technical assistance provided
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.