PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRATCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 20, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

7,803

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania →

Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania reported to HHS on 2013-05-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 7803 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A Trojan virus was discovered running under an administrative account on a remote access server. No data loss was actually discovered, but potentially 7,300 records may have been vulnerable. The types of protected health information (PHI) potentially breached included demographic, financial, and clinical information.

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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

May 20, 2013

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.Confirmed7,803 affectedView incident

Name: Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania
norm: lutheran social services of south central pennsylvania
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania
norm: lutheran social services of south central pennsylvania
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 20, 2013
Affected individuals: 7,803nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged a forensic consulting team to verify the scope and impact of the malware and to clean the system
Changes made: Installed more effective virus detection software
Trained and educated users regarding data security
Made adjustments to data storage policies
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: May 20, 2013
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: May 20, 2013	—	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: May 20, 2013
Raw hash: eea6b997ba6b89d79b97c97c42ccaf52a80ed1bebe5f8eeb7734931847a310fb

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Reporting entityLutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania

Victim entityLutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEngaged a forensic consulting team to verify the scope and impact of the malware and to clean the system

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing