TENNESSEEHackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)High

Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 21, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

6,121,158

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation →2 incidents on file

Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporations reported to HHS a hacking incident affecting 6,121,158 individuals, first disclosed on August 21, 2014. The incident, which concluded in August 2014, involved a cyber-hacking group using compromised administrative credentials to access and exfiltrate protected health information from a network server. An OCR investigation revealed systemic noncompliance with HIPAA security rules, leading to a $2.3 million settlement and a corrective action plan.

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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

Aug 21, 2014

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_86b0ceb5fecbf7012014-08-20 · +1dVerified
HHS OCRbd_e336e3697f6fb6732014-08-20 · +1dVerified

Name: Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation
norm: community health systems professional
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation
norm: community health systems professional
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,121,158nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR investigation found longstanding, systemic noncompliance with the HIPAA Security Rule.Agreed to pay $2,300,000 to OCR to settle potential violations.

Changes made: Adopted a corrective action plan that includes two years of monitoring.
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 · 3 filings · 2 states

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California State AGAug 20 · first

HHS OCRAug 20 · first

HHS OCR+1d · this page

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: Aug 21, 2014
Raw hash: 73cad457f78ca78ed14f9f7fbfe5c14f1129840315839553c341ab4ad455781c

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCommunity Health Systems Professional Services Corporation

Victim entityCommunity Health Systems Professional Services Corporation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAdopted a corrective action plan that includes two years of monitoring.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing