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Breach notice filed by St. Mary's Health (March 2015)

Organization named: St. Mary's Health 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 March 5, 2015.

Organization as reported
St. Mary's Health, IN
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
March 5, 2015
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14867, row:6006)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

On December 3, 2014, the covered entity (CE), St. Mary’s Health, discovered that a phishing email attack compromised several employees’ user names and passwords. The breach affected approximately 3,952 individuals. The types of protected health information (PHI) involved in the breach included patients’ names, addresses, date of birth, clinical information, and in some instances, social security numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media. Following the breach, the CE deployed a program to assist users in identifying phishing and malware attacks. OCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.

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

Figures, per source

  • 3,952 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date March 5, 2015, 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 14867)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • St. Mary's Health 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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