MASSACHUSETTSMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialHighContained

Nuance Communications, Inc

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 18, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

4,830

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Nuance Communications, Inc →6 incidents on file

Nuance Communications, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-11-18 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,830 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee impermissibly accessed PHI including names, addresses, medications, diagnoses, lab results, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, financial information, and claims 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

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Breach window unknown

Nov 18, 2022

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.Confirmed4,830 affectedView incident

Name: Nuance Communications, Inc
norm: nuance communications
Domain: nuance.com
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Nuance Communications, Inc
norm: nuance communications
Domain: nuance.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,830nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Nuance Communications, Inc.business associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Sanctioned the employee
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
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 18, 2022
Raw hash: cba757247916f1be18360a50decfb8423530d3c00f4e4a4f9bc95eb13d41fc81

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Reporting entityNuance Communications, Inc

Victim entityNuance Communications, Inc

IncidentInsider

Stated responseSanctioned the employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing