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IOWASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Monroe County Hospital & Clinics

bd_6a271cc1eab7b697 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 17, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

8,487

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Monroe County Hospital & Clinics →

Monroe County Hospital & Clinics (IA) reported to HHS on 2020-02-17 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 8,487 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, and medications prescribed. Breached information was located on Email systems. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, provided credit monitoring, implemented additional safeguards, and retrained workforce on phishing identification.

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

Feb 17, 2020

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.Confirmed8,487 affectedView incident

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.