TENNESSEESocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Meharry Medical College

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 4, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

20,963

Confidence

97%

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.

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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

Dec 4, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed20,963 affectedView incident

Name: Meharry Medical College
norm: meharry medical college
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Meharry Medical College
norm: meharry medical college
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,963nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Changes made: Retrained its staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
Implemented corrective actions as noted by OCR
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: Dec 4, 2020
Raw hash: 1d6b11816a897c2613f5ee79f691852ff191a4b7a5e146197502d3a1b8c89c3a

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Reporting entityMeharry Medical College

Victim entityMeharry Medical College

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing