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COLORADOMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 29, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

4,335

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospital →2 incidents on file

Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospital reported to HHS on 2024-03-29 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4335 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved a ransomware attack encrypting PHI including names, DOBs, SSNs, driver's license numbers, addresses, claims, medications, and diagnoses. The entity offered free credit monitoring and implemented additional safeguards.

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

Mar 29, 2024

Filed

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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.Confirmed4,335 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.