MISSISSIPPIMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Merit Health Northwest Mississippi

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 26, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

847

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Merit Health Northwest Mississippi →

Merit Health Northwest Mississippi reported to HHS on 2015-08-26 a Theft affecting 847 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee impermissibly obtained PHI for identity theft purposes.

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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

Aug 26, 2015

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed847 affectedView incident

Name: Merit Health Northwest Mississippi
norm: merit health northwest mississippi
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Merit Health Northwest Mississippi
norm: merit health northwest mississippi
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 847nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE has implemented the corrective actions listed above
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Worked with law enforcement
Conducted an internal investigation
Provided timely breach notification to HHS
Provided timely breach notification to affected individuals
Provided timely breach notification to the media
Offered free credit monitoring to the affected individuals
Provided substitute notice on its website
Re-trained its employees
Revised its policy on the printing of social security numbers
Changes made: Re-trained its employees
Revised its policy on the printing of social security numbers
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: Aug 26, 2015
Raw hash: 3a486485041540f39ecdc2d42b7c42e97464edfd7ef7b0f00ad17ffca86ca308

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Reporting entityMerit Health Northwest Mississippi

Victim entityMerit Health Northwest Mississippi

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseWorked with law enforcement

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing