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NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Government IDHigh

Highlands-Cashiers Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 11, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

26,115

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

50%
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Highlands Cashier Hospital reported to HHS on 2014-12-11 a breach involving unauthorized access or disclosure that affected 26,115 individuals. A business associate, Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., incorrectly configured the hospital's firewall, which exposed patient data on the internet. The exposed information, located on a network server, included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, treatment details, and, for 21,072 individuals, Social Security numbers. In response, the hospital implemented enhanced firewall safeguards, started monitoring web traffic, and began conducting external vulnerability scans.

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 11, 2014

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGNov 26 · first
Massachusetts State AG+2d
HHS OCR+15d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 26 (NH), last Dec 11 (NC) — a 15-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.