TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,841

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring →

Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-07-23 a Hacking/IT Incident — email phishing attack affecting an employee — that exposed the PHI of 1,841 individuals. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, health insurance information, and other treatment information; breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals and provided substitute notice on its website. Additional administrative and technical safeguards were implemented. OCR closed the case after the CE was purchased and OCR lost jurisdiction over the entity.

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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

Jul 23, 2021

Filed

—

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.Confirmed1,841 affectedView incident

Name: Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring
norm: medi lynx cardiac monitoring
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring
norm: medi lynx cardiac monitoring
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,841nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation opened; case closed after CE was purchased and OCR lost jurisdiction
Initial access: phishing_attachment

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Provided substitute notice on website
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
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: Jul 23, 2021
Raw hash: 57d6c0a021fcddbb13a6ae89d7f6c0a43dad33344e1433b941072620be8f14df

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Reporting entityMedi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring

Victim entityMedi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing