INDIANAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

ePrescribing for DME - DMEscripts

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 8, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

9,993

Confidence

69%

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DMEscripts, LLC reported to HHS on 2024-10-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 9,993 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was targeted by a phishing scheme compromising PHI (names, DOB, treatment). The business associate provided credit monitoring and implemented safeguards.

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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

Oct 8, 2024

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.Confirmed9,993 affectedView incident

Name: ePrescribing for DME - DMEscripts
norm: eprescribing for dme dmescripts
Domain: dmescripts.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: ePrescribing for DME - DMEscripts
norm: eprescribing for dme dmescripts
Domain: dmescripts.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 9,993nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via DMEscripts, LLCbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained
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: Oct 8, 2024
Raw hash: 488a1b453e262b554ac3b9e5c87c184278b03ea189f513000de85af89b3448f9

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Reporting entityePrescribing for DME - DMEscripts

Victim entityePrescribing for DME - DMEscripts

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing