GASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedTargetedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
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Full breach record for AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →On September 7, 2016, a cyber-attacker sent a phishing email to Augusta University Medical Center, Inc. (GA) and obtained employee usernames and passwords. The attacker accessed a self-service portal to redirect employee paychecks. PHI of 4,690 individuals was exposed, including addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, insurance, prescription and treatment information, and, for some, Social Security numbers. HHS breach submission filed 2017-05-26; 5,600 individuals listed as affected. Breached information located in Email.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,600 affectedView incident
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
- May 26, 2017
- Raw hash
- f55cc31aea06e57bf0a4a4a99a8c2f18c5a4d4c3261bc43df8b7ad751f3bb390
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.norm: au medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- AU MEDICAL CENTER, INC.norm: au medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 5,600
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — breach notification submitted; OCR confirmed corrective actions implemented
- 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.