WEST VIRGINIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Charleston Fire Department

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 22, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

2,583

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Charleston Fire Department →

Charleston Fire Department (Charleston, WV) reported to HHS OCR on 2025-04-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2,583 individuals. An employee was targeted by an email phishing scheme, exposing PHI including demographic, clinical, and financial information stored in email systems. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. Remediation included MFA implementation, policy revisions, and an updated HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis.

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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

Apr 22, 2025

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.Confirmed2,583 affectedView incident

Name: Charleston Fire Department
norm: charleston fire department
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Charleston Fire Department
norm: charleston fire department
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,583nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented multi-factor authentication
Revised policies and procedures
Updated HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis
Changes made: Multi-factor authentication implemented
Revised policies and procedures
Updated HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis
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: Apr 22, 2025
Raw hash: cf40508d709f766ef5aa39e2bd14e02cdecc0f40e3d4b3153186251360342432

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Reporting entityCharleston Fire Department

Victim entityCharleston Fire Department

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing