CONNECTICUTMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighContained

Waterford Country School

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 5, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

6,211

Linked

3 records

Confidence

97%

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Waterford Country School (CT), a Healthcare Provider, reported to HHS OCR on 2023-12-05 a ransomware attack affecting 6,211 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license information, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and financial/treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice, offered credit monitoring, and implemented additional technical and security safeguards. No business associate was present.

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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

Dec 5, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Siteinc_ransombd_24b2cfe40efd25832024-01-29 · +56dCandidate

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_9cfe100ed2fbd4262024-08-22 · +261dVerified by operator

Name: Waterford Country School
norm: waterford country school
Domain: waterfordcountryschool.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Waterford Country School
norm: waterford country school
Domain: waterfordcountryschool.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,211nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (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 ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified

During the incident: Notified HHS OCR
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional technical and security safeguards
Changes made: Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Complimentary credit monitoring offered to affected individuals
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: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRDec 5 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+261d

Pattern: first filing Dec 5 (CT), last Aug 22 (MA) — a 261-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Dec 5, 2023
Raw hash: 8d9e3feac9e58c768728edca9118e34036bc30a8a3da2b85bf0d207822ed2120

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Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWaterford Country School

Victim entityWaterford Country School

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing