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Muhlenberg College
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Full breach record for Muhlenberg College →OH Muhlenberg, LLC reported to HHS on 2015-11-13 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 84681 individuals. The FBI notified the entity on September 16, 2015, that its systems were infected with QuakBot malware, potentially present since January 1, 2012. The breach exposed PHI including names, DOBs, SSNs, and financial data across multiple devices. The entity decommissioned affected systems, upgraded hardware, improved antivirus, and provided security training.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Sep 16, 2015 → Notified Nov 13, 201558d ✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_667d2d79b9fa83bcMontana State AGfiled 2015-11-13Verified
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
- Nov 13, 2015
- Raw hash
- a309ce8825100547456f9b4ae5a4c55901a0b99d4cc900ed46438d064dc6db86
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Muhlenberg Collegenorm: muhlenberg college
- Domain
- muhlenberg.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Muhlenberg Collegenorm: muhlenberg college
- Domain
- muhlenberg.edu
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 16, 2015
- Materiality determined
- Sep 16, 2015
- Notification sent
- Nov 13, 2015
- Affected individuals
- 84,681
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified · 58dHIPAA 60-day OK · 58d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Sep 16, 2015→ Notified: Nov 13, 201558d regulatory submission HHS notified HIPAA Discovered: Sep 16, 2015→ Notified: Nov 13, 201558d 60 days HIPAA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.