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Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospital
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Full breach record for Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospital →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,335 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Mar 29, 2024
- Raw hash
- f47e5f1e5bc60693b81a26d5a60ca71491c8a7cbc3a051731089f67e422a7388
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospitalnorm: northern colorado long term acute hospital
- Domain
- ncltah.ernesthealth.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Northern Colorado Long Term Acute Hospitalnorm: northern colorado long term acute hospital
- Domain
- ncltah.ernesthealth.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 4,335
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.