AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
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Full breach record for AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →AU Medical Center, Inc. (GA, healthcare provider) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-09-15 that multiple employees were victims of an email phishing attack, exposing ePHI of 6,109 individuals. Compromised data included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, financial information, driver's license numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance and prescription information, and diagnoses/treatment information. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. Remediation included additional administrative and technical safeguards and employee retraining on email security.
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
- Sep 15, 2017
- Raw hash
- 3bafc0839880b5f0938a633aaf9055e2844e14d22332b333198f4efaa3193355
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.norm: au medical center
Victim entity
- Name
- AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.norm: au medical center
- Industry
- Healthcare Provider
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 6,109
- Data types
- PHIPIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIALFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach report
- Initial access
- phishing_link
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.