NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)AuthenticationHighResolved

Carolinas Medical Center - Randolph

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 7, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

5,600

Confidence

97%

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Carolinas Medical Center - Randolph (NC) reported to HHS OCR on 2012-12-07 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5,600 individuals. A physician responded to a phishing email and surrendered her password to a third party, causing all her emails — containing PHI including names, dates of birth, medications, treatment info, SSNs (5 patients), addresses, and medical record numbers — to be auto-forwarded externally. CE remediated by disabling auto-forwarding, enabling foreign-access alerts, and training staff on social engineering. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

Dec 7, 2012

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.Confirmed5,600 affectedView incident

Name: Carolinas Medical Center - Randolph
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Carolinas Medical Center - Randolph
norm: carolinas medical center randolph
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,600nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Authentication
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were taken.
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Terminated auto-forwarding capabilities on email accounts.
Implemented alert for remote system accesses originating from a foreign country.
Trained employees on identifying social engineering schemes.
Changes made: Improved administrative and technical safeguards.
Disabled auto-email-forwarding.
Foreign-origin remote access alerting deployed.
Staff social engineering awareness training conducted.
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.

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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: Dec 7, 2012
Raw hash: ca0b10e52af9493f2d1babf6c82fc872535dba5636829a6b7fbd212b4373511d

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Reporting entityCarolinas Medical Center - Randolph

Victim entityCarolinas Medical Center - Randolph

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTerminated auto-forwarding capabilities on email accounts.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing