OHMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTLowResolved
Meigs County Emergency Medical Services
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Full breach record for Meigs County Emergency Medical Services →Meigs County EMS (OH) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-12-05 a ransomware attack detected on October 6, 2016 affecting 817 individuals. Hackers attacked the computer server (Desktop Computer, Email, Network Server) and may have acquired patients' PHI including demographic, financial, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented physical, administrative, and technical safeguards, including an audit removing unnecessary/stale network accounts. OCR obtained corrective action assurances.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified9 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed817 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 5, 2016
- Raw hash
- b72aa741072244168e78d209c7ee5ac06ce45f1b28103c9d229476ef18aeda00
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Meigs County Emergency Medical Servicesnorm: meigs county emergency medical
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Meigs County Emergency Medical Servicesnorm: meigs county emergency medical
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 6, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 817
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — corrective action assurances obtained
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Oct 6, 2016→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.