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RHODE ISLANDAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MetadataMediumResolved

The Miriam Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 17, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

2,999

Confidence

97%
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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

May 17, 2021

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.Confirmed2,999 affectedView incident

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.