RIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMETADATAMediumResolved
The Miriam Hospital
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Full breach record for The Miriam Hospital →The Miriam Hospital (Providence, RI) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-05-17 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure breach affecting 2,999 individuals. An employee inadvertently sent an email containing ePHI — including names and email addresses — without using the blind carbon copy (BCC) function, exposing recipients to one another's identities. Breached information was located in Email. The hospital notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, set up a dedicated phone line, revised its policies and procedures, and retrained staff.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,999 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
- May 17, 2021
- Raw hash
- ac61c8308ff3bf768a08ab7b00628c19039d0aff234283941e9c0a055487a17c
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Miriam Hospitalnorm: the miriam hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The Miriam Hospitalnorm: the miriam hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,999
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMETADATA
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.