MINNESOTASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowResolved

Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 28, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

554

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc. →

Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc., business associates of Best Hearing Products, Inc. (covered entity), reported to HHS on 2017-12-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 554 individuals. An employee of the covered entity was the victim of an email phishing scheme. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and treatment information. Breached information located on Email. The CE implemented administrative and technical safeguards and retrained employees on identifying fraudulent emails. 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 28, 2017

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.Confirmed554 affectedView incident

Name: Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.
norm: miracle ear inc and amplifon usa
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.
norm: miracle ear inc and amplifon usa
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 554nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented corrective actions.
Third party: via Best Hearing Products, Inc.business associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
CE implemented administrative and technical safeguards to better protect data.
CE retrained employees on identifying fraudulent email communications.
Changes made: Administrative safeguards implemented.
Technical safeguards implemented.
Employee retraining on phishing identification.
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: Dec 28, 2017
Raw hash: 5315d1287515568a5e4a0802ca1165312e28e8339f937051f9fecb828c48aee8

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Reporting entityMiracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.

Victim entityMiracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing