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TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Financial accountIdentity (basic)Medium

M&C Children's Clinic PA

bd_d96910ba2139e5fd · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 19, 2013

To disclose

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Affected

6,300

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for M&C Children's Clinic PA →

On March 19, 2013, M&C Children's Clinic PA reported a data breach to HHS affecting 6,300 individuals. The breach was a result of a hacking incident where an attacker encrypted patient electronic medical records on a network server and demanded a ransom. The compromised information included patients' clinical, financial, and demographic data. In response, the clinic enhanced its security with new firewalls and antivirus software, revised its data backup and recovery plans, and provided additional staff training.

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

Mar 19, 2013

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,300 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.