PAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisuse OtherData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
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Full breach record for Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center →Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2014-06-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,801 individuals. An employee downloaded PHI onto an unsecured flash drive, used it on a personal computer, and emailed the work via a personal email account. Breached information was located on Email and Other Portable Electronic Device. PHI included demographic and clinical information. OCR investigated; CE updated encryption measures, reinforced staff policies, and 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.Confirmed1,801 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
- Jun 6, 2014
- Raw hash
- b1b067c6c501a1513873d1bb901aeaad5a452e1a437ba304d768d172046c947e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centernorm: penn state milton s hershey medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centernorm: penn state milton s hershey 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
- 1,801
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical MediumT1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation; CE submitted policies on personal device use, PHI storage on third-party media, and approved electronic connections; OCR verified policy was in place; OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.