UTAHMalwareHealthcareRetail & ConsumerHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighContained

MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

39,447

Confidence

97%

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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.

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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

Dec 23, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed39,447 affectedView incident

Name: MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.
norm: medquest pharmacy
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: MedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.
norm: medquest pharmacy
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultRetail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,447nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained all staff
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Staff retraining completed
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: Dec 23, 2021
Raw hash: 5f36a9d6524c30cea6fe0b31068a8f9b004215992a3e673e454a1883cc4bc34d

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Reporting entityMedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.

Victim entityMedQuest Pharmacy, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing