NORTH DAKOTAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountFinancialHighContained

Pembina County Memorial Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 25, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

23,811

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Pembina County Memorial Hospital →

Pembina County Memorial Hospital (ND) reported to HHS on 2024-03-25 a ransomware incident affecting 23,811 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license and Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, prescription information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards.

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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

Mar 25, 2024

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 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_18bafd5c57aa309a2024-03-25Candidate
Maine State AGbd_2bb90d62279cd10f2024-03-25Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_7e70ab887494abda2024-03-25Verified
Indiana State AGbd_930f25c0d675eef62024-03-25Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_37e19cef648a7eb92024-04-01 · +7dVerified

Name: Pembina County Memorial Hospital
norm: pembina county memorial hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Pembina County Memorial Hospital
norm: pembina county memorial hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 23,811nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountFinancial
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notificationMedia notification

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
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.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGMar 25 · first

Maine State AGMar 25 · first

Massachusetts State AGMar 25 · first

Indiana State AGMar 25 · first

HHS OCRMar 25 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Mar 25 (MT), last Apr 1 (NH) — a 7-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://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 25, 2024
Raw hash: 8149e94219e69913bdd06e53d8781b8b2191bb2776d03a9ef72e772db6739adb

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPembina County Memorial Hospital

Victim entityPembina County Memorial Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing