MNSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLowResolved
Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.
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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.
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.Confirmed554 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 28, 2017
- Raw hash
- 5315d1287515568a5e4a0802ca1165312e28e8339f937051f9fecb828c48aee8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.norm: miracle ear inc and amplifon usa
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Miracle-Ear, Inc. and Amplifon (USA), Inc.norm: miracle ear inc and amplifon usa
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 554
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- 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
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.