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Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 26, 2018

Filed

Nov 26, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,971

Confidence

69%

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Mercy Medical Center- North Iowa reported to HHS on 2018-11-26 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1971 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A former employee impermissibly accessed ePHI including names, addresses, diagnoses, and medications. The entity retrained staff and is implementing a new EMR system with enhanced safeguards.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time

⚠ filing dateThe stored discovery date equals the regulator filing date, so no genuine detection date was captured.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 0 days

Nov 26, 2018

Discovered

Nov 26, 2018

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,971 affectedView incident

Name: Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa
norm: mercy medical center north iowa
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa
norm: mercy medical center north iowa
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Nov 26, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,971nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Retrained its staff
Changes made: Implementing a new electronic medical record system
Installing additional technical and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: filing dateThe stored discovery date equals the regulator filing date, so no genuine detection date was captured.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Nov 26, 2018
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Nov 26, 2018
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Nov 26, 2018 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Nov 26, 2018 → 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 26, 2018
Raw hash: e09be2e8a9747ad2d2a9fcf94e33c9fff206e276278f5fec14850d3c128850ce

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Reporting entityMercy Medical Center - North Iowa

Victim entityMercy Medical Center - North Iowa

Incidentdiscovered Nov 26, 2018

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing