PENNSYLVANIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

Reading Health System

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 1, 2014

Filed

Apr 29, 2014

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1,845

Confidence

97%

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Reading Health System (PA) reported to HHS on 2014-04-29 a Loss affecting 1,845 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A medical practice moved and a vendor/patient stored three boxes of paper medical billing records in the vendor's crawl space from March 2012 until March 2014. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, insurance information, billing codes, and diagnoses. The CE determined no disclosures had occurred and offered affected individuals free credit monitoring.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 730 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Mar 1, 2012

Begins

Mar 1, 2014

Discovered

Apr 29, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,845 affectedView incident

Name: Reading Health System
norm: reading health system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Reading Health System
norm: reading health system
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Mar 1, 2014
Breach occurred: Mar 1, 2012 – Mar 1, 2014
Undetected for: 730 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,845nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted

During the incident: Interviewed vendor/patient and determined no disclosures had occurred
Provided breach notification to HHS and affected individuals
Offered all living patients one year of free credit monitoring
Established a professionally staffed call center
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Mar 1, 2014
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Mar 1, 2014
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Mar 1, 2014 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Mar 1, 2014 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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: Apr 29, 2014
Raw hash: cb986fb8d0bfc865c2ff3e667b884d47681494e7a3ff8f00439ae24e6ac15eaf

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Reporting entityReading Health System

Victim entityReading Health System

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2014

Stated responseInterviewed vendor/patient and determined no disclosures had occurred

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing