TNSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Meharry Medical College
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Full breach record for Meharry Medical College →Meharry Medical College (TN) reported to HHS on 2020-12-04 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 20,963 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that compromised ePHI including names, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE sanctioned the responsible employee, retrained staff, and OCR provided technical assistance.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed20,963 affectedView incident
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
- Dec 4, 2020
- Raw hash
- 1d6b11816a897c2613f5ee79f691852ff191a4b7a5e146197502d3a1b8c89c3a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Meharry Medical Collegenorm: meharry medical college
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Meharry Medical Collegenorm: meharry medical college
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 20,963
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance regarding the Breach Notification RuleOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
- 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.