WASHINGTONMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

University of Washington

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$750K

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 27, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

90,000

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for University of Washington →7 incidents on file

University of Washington Medicine reported to HHS on 2013-11-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 90,000 individuals. Malicious malware was introduced via an email attachment, compromising e-PHI including names, MRNs, SSNs, and financial data. The organization settled with OCR for $750,000 and entered a corrective action plan.

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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

Nov 27, 2013

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.Confirmed90,000 affectedView incident

Name: University of Washington
norm: university of washington
Domain: uwmedicine.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: University of Washington
norm: university of washington
Domain: uwmedicine.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 90,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCROCR initiated investigationEntered into Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan with OCR
Initial access: phishing_attachment

During the incident: Agreed to settle charges
Entered into a corrective action plan
Agreed to make a monetary payment of $750,000
Agreed to submit annual reports on the organization’s compliance efforts
Changes made: Implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain, and correct security violations
Ensure affiliated entities conduct up-to-date, documented system-level risk assessments
Implement safeguards in compliance with the Security Rule
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: Nov 27, 2013
Raw hash: 23b7d841242124a07845bba30feaabb49dd476daf999af599515ac3499116125

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Reporting entityUniversity of Washington

Victim entityUniversity of Washington

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAgreed to settle charges

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing