NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareEducationHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 12, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

3,716

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine →3 incidents on file

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine reported to HHS on 2019-11-12 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing scheme) affecting 3,716 individuals. Several employees were victims of a phishing attack that compromised PHI including Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, treatment, and clinical information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE provided credit monitoring and retrained staff on email security.

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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

Nov 12, 2019

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.Confirmed3,716 affectedView incident

Name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
norm: university of north carolina at chapel hill school of medicine
Domain: med.unc.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
norm: university of north carolina at chapel hill school of medicine
Domain: med.unc.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultEducationllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,716nationwide
Data types: Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Staff retraining on email security
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: Nov 12, 2019
Raw hash: c82e37db4e74be774a3cdf1cb87721810f3d4134904c16e1a76cf8af304874dd

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Reporting entityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Victim entityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing