FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareTheftKnowledge AbuseEmbezzlementCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

Holy Cross Hospital, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 16, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

1,500

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Holy Cross Hospital, Inc. →6 incidents on file

Holy Cross Hospital (FL) reported to HHS OCR on 2010-11-16 a Theft/insider incident affecting 1,500 individuals (notification sent to ~44,000 potentially affected). A hospital employee impermissibly copied patient data sheets containing PHI — including names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, insurance information, and diagnoses — and sold the information to a third party. Confirmed PHI of 38 individuals was sold; ~1,500 were initially identified as at risk. The CE cooperated with federal and state authorities, offered free credit monitoring, and implemented extensive corrective actions under OCR oversight.

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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

Nov 16, 2010

Filed

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

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_9f7574e9cbe4b28d2010-11-22 · +6dVerified

Name: Holy Cross Hospital, Inc.
norm: holy cross hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Holy Cross Hospital, Inc.
norm: holy cross hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,500nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Cooperated with federal authorities and law enforcementProvided report to a national accreditation organizationReported to state health administration agencyOCR obtained written assurances of corrective action implementation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to approximately 44,000 individuals (including potentially affected)
Notification to HHS and media
Free credit monitoring offered to affected individuals
Convened high-level work group to oversee privacy and security issues
Hired expert forensic investigator to perform risk assessment
Updated privacy and security policies and procedures
Developed plan to adopt electronic health records
Initiated continuous review process including random HIPAA compliance audits
Expanded HIPAA training program for employees
Changes made: Privacy and security policy and procedure updates
Forensic risk assessment
Electronic health records adoption plan
Continuous HIPAA compliance audit program
Enhanced employee HIPAA training
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 OCRNov 16 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Nov 16 (FL), last Nov 22 (MA) — a 6-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: Nov 16, 2010
Raw hash: 4efc8b6fb04682527487dabd0fbfbee908c10e16abc689114578861e90603183

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHoly Cross Hospital, Inc.

Victim entityHoly Cross Hospital, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to approximately 44,000 individuals (including potentially affected)

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing