GASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumContained
WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.
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Full breach record for WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. →WellStar Health System, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-04-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 30,417 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing PHI including names, lab results, and treatment information. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided substitute notice. Response included sanctioning responsible employees, implementing administrative and technical safeguards, and retraining staff on email security.
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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_69cd6086a9112118Montana State AGfiled 2022-04-08Verified
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
- Apr 8, 2022
- Raw hash
- ee0392f4ab493d3abf310679a930d6c29273af237f590917b6f1990f17df16bb
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.norm: wellstar health system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.norm: wellstar health system
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 30,417
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- notified HHS
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.