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UNC Hospitals

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 2, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

3,142

Confidence

87%

Full breach record for UNC Hospitals →5 incidents on file

UNC Hospitals (NC, healthcare provider) reported a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3,142 individuals via Email to the HHS OCR breach portal on 2024-04-02. No business associate was indicated. The OCR listing provides no narrative description, threat-actor attribution, attack subcategory, or remediation detail.

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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

Apr 2, 2024

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.Confirmed3,142 affectedView incident

Name: UNC Hospitals
norm: unc hospitals

Name: UNC Hospitals
norm: unc hospitals
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,142nationwide
Data types: PHI
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

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: Apr 2, 2024
Raw hash: 2b801fe3de0e1ba3301737cdb16a467092b38c5facec6f182514b28fd272d4ca

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Reporting entityUNC Hospitals

Victim entityUNC Hospitals

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing