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PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Upmc

bd_d8ecced71ce534d3 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 27, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

1,279

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Upmc →5 incidents on file

UPMC (PA) reported to HHS on 2013-11-27 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure breach affecting 1,279 individuals. An employee impermissibly accessed PHI stored in Electronic Medical Records, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, and clinical information. UPMC notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The employee was sanctioned and law enforcement was notified. OCR reviewed UPMC's risk analysis for Security Rule compliance.

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

Nov 27, 2013

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.Confirmed1,279 affectedView incident

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.