INDIANASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

Meridian Health Services

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 27, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

111,372

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Meridian Health Services →

Meridian Health Services Corp. reported to HHS on 2020-04-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 111,372 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSNs, and medical data.

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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

Apr 27, 2020

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_242aa7a088e2a3342020-04-27Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8fcd970d47ca08d42020-04-27Verified
Indiana State AGbd_9886050c933d7e7e2020-04-27Verified
Montana State AGbd_9fe0c2781d71b9f72020-04-27Verified

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Illinois State AGbd_78f123bcce87cdcd2020-01-01 · +117dCandidate

Name: Meridian Health Services
norm: meridian health
Domain: meridianhs.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Meridian Health Services
norm: meridian health
Domain: meridianhs.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 111,372nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
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.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Massachusetts State AG+117d

New Hampshire State AG+117d

Indiana State AG+117d

Montana State AG+117d

HHS OCR+117d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Apr 27 (IN) — a 117-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Apr 27, 2020
Raw hash: b033914707acdd9b43e29e38d46b9204bda0b8b25bc0dd6d5d630084308fc6bb

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMeridian Health Services

Victim entityMeridian Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing