MISSISSIPPIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 29, 2017

Filed

Feb 28, 2018

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

1,512

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Memorial Hospital at Gulfport →3 incidents on file

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport reported to HHS on 2018-02-28 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1512 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The entity inadvertently emailed an internal report containing PHI to an external address due to a clerical error.

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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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 61 days

Dec 29, 2017

Begins

Dec 29, 2017

Discovered

Feb 28, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,512 affectedView incident

Name: Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
norm: memorial hospital at gulfport
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
norm: memorial hospital at gulfport
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Dec 29, 2017
Breach occurred: Dec 29, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,512nationwide
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: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions

During the incident: Updated its email distribution policy and procedures
Instituted monthly meetings with the Outlook email team
Trained the IT department on the new process to add email addresses to distribution groups
Provided breach notification to HHS, the affected individuals, and to the media
Changes made: Updated its email distribution policy and procedures
Instituted monthly meetings with the Outlook email team
Trained the IT department on the new process to add email addresses to distribution groups
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(61 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: Dec 29, 2017
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Dec 29, 2017 → 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: Feb 28, 2018
Raw hash: 078ddc8bc2d4288af210c98860340c40122d88768e1ddfb963b56efefee8176b

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Reporting entityMemorial Hospital at Gulfport

Victim entityMemorial Hospital at Gulfport

Incidentdiscovered Dec 29, 2017

Stated responseUpdated its email distribution policy and procedures

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing