WASHINGTONMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumContained
UW Medicine
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Full breach record for UW Medicine →UW Medicine (WA) reported to HHS on 2021-06-04 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 18,389 individuals. A business associate experienced a ransomware attack impacting ePHI stored on a Network Server. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, and medications prescribed. UW Medicine notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards and retrained staff.
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.Confirmed18,389 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
- Jun 4, 2021
- Raw hash
- 035ff935273143244980811f41efb402ad69ddb52b751a30d9f680338f3f8497
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- UW Medicinenorm: uw medicine
- Domain
- uwmedicine.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- UW Medicinenorm: uw medicine
- Domain
- uwmedicine.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 18,389
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
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.