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KENTUCKYMalwareHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighContained

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 3, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

2,062

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services →2 incidents on file

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) reported to HHS on 2023-12-03 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware attack via business associate) affecting 2,062 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, claims information, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE provided credit monitoring, notified affected individuals and media, and the CE and BA 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

Dec 3, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,062 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.