MASSACHUSETTSHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

Nuance Communications, Inc

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 15, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

1,225,054

Linked

11 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Nuance Communications, Inc →3 incidents on file

Nuance Communications, Inc. reported to HHS on 2023-09-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,225,054 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The cyber-attack compromised PHI including names, addresses, DOBs, diagnoses, medications, and SSNs.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d

⚠ 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

Sep 15, 2023

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 11 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Progress Software Corporation supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

A leak claim by dispossessor about this victim predates this filing by 449 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitecl0pbd_40ea5b2a63ba1e582023-06-16 · +91dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_2d18f75acad25ac92023-09-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_42ba23005cabceb82023-09-15Verified
California State AGbd_829cc01dc8d0b7322023-09-15Verified
Washington State AGbd_82faba2aed5d0b312023-09-15Verified by operator

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Montana State AGbd_f82949cd77b8e1ac2023-09-15Verified
Delaware State AGbd_119ca48980839f9b2023-09-18 · +3dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_61e841c1c65090342023-09-19 · +4dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_59fd556cb57cb64f2023-01-01 · +257dVerified by operator
Illinois State AGbd_6a436e30174844602023-01-01 · +257dVerified by operator

Name: Nuance Communications, Inc
norm: nuance communications
Domain: nuance.com
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Nuance Communications, Inc
norm: nuance communications
Domain: nuance.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,225,054nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Nuance Communications, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Changes made: Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >180dHHS 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.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 9 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Maine State AG+257d

New Hampshire State AG+257d

California State AG+257d

Washington State AG+257d

Montana State AG+257d

HHS OCR+257d · this page

Delaware State AG+260d

Oregon State AG+261d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Sep 19 (OR) — a 261-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Sep 15, 2023
Raw hash: 9465e314ba2909bb05d76d703c1d02669ca3d39ed1c8278e58c3827a789846b0

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Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNuance Communications, Inc

Victim entityNuance Communications, Inc

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing