GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Emory Healthcare

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 15, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

24,000

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Emory Healthcare →4 incidents on file

Emory Healthcare, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-12-15 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 24,000 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A former employee placed files containing ePHI on a public server.

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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 15, 2017

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_963c25e96af07b692017-12-15Candidate

Name: Emory Healthcare
norm: emory healthcare
Domain: emoryhealthcare.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Emory Healthcare
norm: emory healthcare
Domain: emoryhealthcare.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 24,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGDec 15 · first

HHS OCRDec 15 · first · this page

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 15, 2017
Raw hash: 7387efe59bf45d649a1fc68361c18b536c7a9e2ec564a6b3d171f25c39d2eb47

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEmory Healthcare

Victim entityEmory Healthcare

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing