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Breach notice filed by Mercy Iowa City (November 2020)

Organization named: Mercy Iowa City Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Nov. 13, 2020.

Organization as reported
Mercy Iowa City, IA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Nov. 13, 2020
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12508, row:3647)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The covered entity (CE), Mercy Iowa City, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 92,795 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In addition, the CE offered complimentary credit monitoring services to all affected individuals. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI and retrained its staff of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 92,795 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date Nov. 13, 2020, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date at the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 12508)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Mercy Iowa City Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, from the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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