Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 18, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →3 incidents on file

AU Medical Center, Inc. and Augusta University notified the NH Attorney General that a phishing attack compromised medical faculty email accounts between April 20-21, 2017. The incident affected one New Hampshire resident. Compromised data included PHI, SSNs, and financial account numbers. The organization disabled accounts, reset passwords, retained forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

Apr 20, 2017

Begins

Sep 18, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_dd621997de15eda92017-09-15 · +3dVerified

Name: AU Medical Center, Inc.
norm: au medical center

Name: AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: au medical center
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 20, 2017 – Apr 21, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 15, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the impacted email accounts
Required password changes for the compromised accounts
Maintained heightened monitoring of the accounts
Commenced an investigation into the incident
Retained an independent computer forensic firm to analyze the extent of any compromise
Provided the New Hampshire resident with written notice of this incident
Offered the resident complimentary credit monitoring services
Advised the resident to remain vigilant in reviewing financial account statements
Advised the resident about the process for placing a fraud alert on credit files
Advised the resident about the process for placing a security freeze
Advised the resident about obtaining a free credit report
Provided the resident with the contact information for the consumer reporting agencies and the Federal Trade Commission
Changes made: Continually evaluating and modifying practices to enhance appropriate security and privacy measures
Ongoing cybersecurity awareness of their workforce
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRSep 15 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d · this page

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/au-medical-center-20170918.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 18, 2017
Raw hash: 7addaa02d2b17301573cefee7e6ef40a4f285d231e7f92bddf89db6b270ace5b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAU Medical Center, Inc.

Victim entityAU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseDisabled the impacted email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov