PASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) reported to HHS on 2018-10-23 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5,368 individuals. On August 23, 2019, a phishing email sent to 679 Outlook users enabled an unauthorized actor to access a physician's email account and the accounts of five employees who forwarded work email externally. The compromised account contained PHI including demographic and clinical information of approximately 5,368 patients. CHOP responded by disabling the account, recalling phishing emails, blocking the phishing site, resetting credentials, notifying affected individuals, and offering credit monitoring. Staff phishing training and a risk assessment update followed. OCR obtained documented assurances of corrective action.

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.

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: Oct 23, 2018
Raw hash: ad06628c49f23606a6b9f15f0c7ba1d1f3fbd9924c757e7a3d15978687517697

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
norm: the children s hospital of philadelphia
Domain: chop.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
norm: the children s hospital of philadelphia
Domain: chop.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,368
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted; OCR obtained documented assurances of corrective action implementation
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

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.