THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.
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Full breach record for THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC. →The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-11-17 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 9,500 individuals. Several employees were victims of an email phishing attack; compromised email accounts contained PHI including names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance information, financial information, and treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE implemented administrative and technical safeguards, retrained staff, and notified HHS, individuals, and media. OCR obtained corrective-action assurances.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_d0e305ef287fbb77Montana State AGfiled 2017-11-17Verified
- bd_d7fc57c44d3545beOregon State AGfiled 2017-11-30(13d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- 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 17, 2017
- Raw hash
- 4b0cde47416d12d8a07ab90ad9e7dd46f64588c0cf81a7183c43c8ae855bd633
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.norm: the medical college of wisconsin
- Domain
- mcw.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC.norm: the medical college of wisconsin
- Domain
- mcw.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 9,500
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS OCROCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.