MARYLANDHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Frederick Memorial Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 18, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

760

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Frederick Memorial Hospital →

Frederick Memorial Hospital reported to HHS on 2019-03-18 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 760 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of an email phishing scheme exposing ePHI including names, SSNs, and health insurance info.

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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 18, 2019

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.Confirmed760 affectedView incident

Name: Frederick Memorial Hospital
norm: frederick memorial hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Frederick Memorial Hospital
norm: frederick memorial hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 760nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported breach to HHS OCR
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Employees were retrained on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained employees on identifying fraudulent email communications
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: Mar 18, 2019
Raw hash: d503667010c7aee45d6a84fed8c655110fc3a44022c613e069d8cde7f31d0da1

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Reporting entityFrederick Memorial Hospital

Victim entityFrederick Memorial Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing