UTAHMisuseHealthcareHealthcareEmail MisuseMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Genetic / health-sensitiveMediumResolved

Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 29, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

643

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. →3 incidents on file

An employee of Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. (UT) emailed unsecured PHI to his personal email account for job-convenience purposes. The PHI of 643 individuals included names, dates of birth, addresses, physicians' names, genetic test results, test IDs, family and personal medical histories, and family pedigree information. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals, posted substitute notice, and offered one year of free identity theft protection. Post-breach, the CE revised email encryption procedures, retrained the employee, and received OCR technical assistance on Security Rule risk analysis. Submitted to HHS OCR on 2014-03-29.

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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

Mar 29, 2014

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed643 affectedView incident

Name: Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.
norm: myriad genetic laboratories
Domain: myriad.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.
norm: myriad genetic laboratories
Domain: myriad.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 643nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Genetic / health-sensitive
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding risk analysis and risk management requirements of the Security Rule
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS and affected individuals
Substitute notice of the breach posted publicly
One year of free identity theft protection services offered to affected individuals
Employee who caused the breach was retrained
Changes made: Revised procedures for encrypting emails containing PHI
Retrained the employee responsible for the breach
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: Mar 29, 2014
Raw hash: 765d6c7e5ece08fc87bd51c1888ccba328521e718e12371ad064d2dfb38160d7

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Reporting entityMyriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.

Victim entityMyriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing