MISSOURIHackingHealthcareHealthcareHacking OtherCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MinorHigh

The Children's Mercy Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 27, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,463

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for The Children's Mercy Hospital →5 incidents on file

Children's Mercy Hospital reported to HHS on 2018-06-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1463 individuals. A hacker used a software-defined radio (SDR) or similar device to intercept protected health information (PHI) transmitted via the hospital's pager system, including names, diagnoses, and treatment information.

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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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 27, 2018

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.Confirmed1,463 affectedView incident

Name: The Children's Mercy Hospital
norm: the children s mercy hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Children's Mercy Hospital
norm: the children s mercy hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,463nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Minor
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members
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: Jun 27, 2018
Raw hash: f60c3629f64c3b5bd2aa3b8d9f811829ee1bf5212420c13590bc11edfe71dfb7

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Reporting entityThe Children's Mercy Hospital

Victim entityThe Children's Mercy Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing