NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 19, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

2,718

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine →3 incidents on file

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine reported to HHS on 2021-07-19 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 2,718 individuals. An employee was the victim of a phishing attack via Email. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, health insurance information, driver's license and Social Security numbers, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, offered credit monitoring, and implemented additional technical safeguards.

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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

Jul 19, 2021

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.Confirmed2,718 affectedView incident

Name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
norm: university of north carolina at chapel hill school of medicine
Domain: med.unc.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
norm: university of north carolina at chapel hill school of medicine
Domain: med.unc.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,718nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSNotified affected individualsNotified mediaProvided substitute notice
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media
Provided substitute notice
Offered complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://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: Jul 19, 2021
Raw hash: fe1edc9c0cf5cde6d52f669b0468d689546fc43435507f16a8701170ad349a68

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Reporting entityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Victim entityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing