KANSASAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 14, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

8,275

Confidence

93%

Full breach record for Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc. →

Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc. (KS), a business associate of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, reported a breach to HHS on 2011-11-14 affecting 8,275 individuals. A security update performed by the BA on the CE's website potentially allowed impermissible disclosure of ePHI including names, addresses, demographic information, and credit card/bank account numbers. The CE shut down its website, removed cached ePHI pages, terminated the BA relationship, offered credit monitoring, and updated policies following an OCR investigation. Breached information located on: Other.

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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

Nov 14, 2011

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.Confirmed8,275 affectedView incident

Name: Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc.
norm: mid continent credit

Name: Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc.
norm: mid continent credit
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,275nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation completed; CE finalized new breach notification policy, updated BA contracts, and re-trained staff on privacy, security, and breach notification policies.
Third party: via Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Shut down CE website upon breach discovery
Removed cached pages containing ePHI
Notified affected individuals, HHS, and media
Offered credit monitoring to affected individuals
Changes made: CE shut down its website
Removed all identified cached pages containing ePHI
Initiated termination of relationship with the BA
Updated breach notification policy
Provided breach notification to affected individuals, HHS, and the media
Posted substitute notice on website
Offered credit monitoring service to affected individuals
Finalized new breach notification policy
Updated BA contracts
Re-trained staff on privacy, security, and breach notification policies
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: Nov 14, 2011
Raw hash: d3cd1359588b95fc74bbe3b4f6158e595da8eb34a18cdb1d9875b4efd16304c9

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Reporting entityMid Continent Credit Services, Inc.

Victim entityMid Continent Credit Services, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseShut down CE website upon breach discovery

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing