IOWAHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighContained
Mercy Medical Center, Inc.
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Full breach record for Mercy Medical Center, Inc. →Mercy Medical Center (IA) reported to HHS on 2023-12-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 97,132 individuals. The covered entity's business associate experienced a cyber-attack that compromised PHI stored on a Network Server. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR provided technical assistance on HIPAA Rules.
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.Confirmed97,132 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
- Dec 8, 2023
- Raw hash
- 46aa3d271f081cd84ba34d3c50724e05c2e51dffecdda7e6d069a94981e48a71
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Mercy Medical Center, Inc.norm: mercy medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Mercy Medical Center, Inc.norm: mercy medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 97,132
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Rules.
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.