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NEW MEXICOMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Artesia General Hospital

bd_14e9656496895ff9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 9, 2017

Filed

Feb 27, 2018

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

864

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Artesia General Hospital →5 incidents on file

Artesia General Hospital reported to HHS on 2018-02-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 864 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The breach was caused by business associate Nuance Communications/Fast Health when their server was taken offline by ransomware between Nov 20, 2017 and Dec 9, 2017. Patient names, DOBs, and treatment info were exposed.

HIPAA clockDiscovered Dec 9, 2017 → Notified Feb 27, 2018✓ HHS notified11 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 · 19 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 80 days

Nov 20, 2017

Begins

Dec 9, 2017

Discovered

Feb 27, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed864 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.