MISSISSIPPIHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Forrest General Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 1, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,670

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Forrest General Hospital →

Forrest General Hospital reported to HHS on 2018-02-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1670 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A business associate, Horne CPAs & Business Advisors, discovered a staff member's email account was compromised via phishing, exposing patient PHI including names, SSNs, and Medicaid numbers.

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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

Feb 1, 2018

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.Confirmed1,670 affectedView incident

Name: Forrest General Hospital
norm: forrest general hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Forrest General Hospital
norm: forrest general hospital
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,670nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
Third party: via Horne CPAs & Business Advisorsbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: BA investigated the incident
BA notified the CE
BA provided breach notification to the affected individuals and the media
CE provided notice to HHS and on its website
BA sanctioned the employee involved
BA implemented several technical security improvements
CE implemented corrective actions
Changes made: BA implemented several technical security improvements
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://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: Feb 1, 2018
Raw hash: 9ef615712055c8e3b2d1e1f1b308b91e899edcc3c72a3f74fbe58da1abc6421b

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Reporting entityForrest General Hospital

Victim entityForrest General Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA investigated the incident

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing