DisclosureLens
ILLINOISSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital

bd_0fe2afbfe83eead1 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 30, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

3,983

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital →2 incidents on file

Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital reported that an employee fell victim to an email phishing attack, which affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,983 individuals. The compromised ePHI included names, dates of birth, telephone numbers, health insurance information, diagnoses, and clinical information. In response, the hospital implemented additional security safeguards and retrained staff on recognizing fraudulent emails.

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 30, 2019

Filed

—

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.Confirmed3,983 affectedView incident

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.