HackingHealthcareHealthcareData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

Howard Memorial Hospital

bd_1c61459d54bd7d76 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 4, 2022

Filed

Jan 27, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Howard Memorial Hospital →3 incidents on file

Howard Memorial Hospital notified consumers of a data breach where files were stolen between Nov 14 and Dec 4, 2022. Impacted data included names, SSNs, DOBs, and PHI. The hospital engaged Cyberscout for forensics, secured its network, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday8 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 · 20 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 54 days

Nov 14, 2022

Begins

Dec 4, 2022

Discovered

Jan 27, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_27d25d1e51008ed32023-01-27Verified
Montana State AGbd_28c19f6e56f119402023-01-27Verified
HHS OCRbd_32695660b370b03b2023-01-27Verified
Maine State AGbd_fa243c6a3cd164b32023-01-27Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_644ff764bcb89bf52023-02-02 · +6dVerified

Name: Howard Memorial Hospital
norm: howard memorial hospital
Domain: howardmemorial.com

Name: Howard Memorial Hospital
norm: howard memorial hospital
Domain: howardmemorial.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 4, 2022
Breach occurred: Nov 14, 2022 – Dec 4, 2022
Undetected for: 20 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Jan 27, 2023
Notification sent: Jan 27, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Provided notice to federal law enforcementWill be provided to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

During the incident: Secured HMH's network
Engaged outside cybersecurity specialists
Performed comprehensive review of at-risk files
Provided notice to federal law enforcement
Offering 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring through IdentityForce
Changes made: Reviewing existing policies and procedures
Implementing additional administrative and technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 27 · first

Montana State AGJan 27 · first

HHS OCRJan 27 · first

Maine State AGJan 27 · first

Vermont State AGJan 27 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Jan 27 (MA), last Feb 2 (NH) — a 6-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.

Source URL: https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-01-27-howard-memorial-hospital-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2023
Raw hash: b0653eeb69f958438413302dd07ffb9fe2af23346234b1344fe0c695fc238206

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHoward Memorial Hospital

Victim entityHoward Memorial Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Dec 4, 2022

Stated responseSecured HMH's network

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov