ILHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
Northwest Essex Community Healthcare Network
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Full breach record for Northwest Essex Community Healthcare Network →Northwest Community Healthcare reported to HHS on 2016-10-07 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 540 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A business associate left an FTP port open, exposing patient PHI (names, DOB, SSN) on the internet. The CE suspended the BA and required data destruction.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Apr 18, 2016 → Notified Oct 7, 2016172d ✗ HIPAA 60-day late25 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed540 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Oct 7, 2016
- Raw hash
- 7bcabae94d1e55c884270f5c04706f9c7068a990f7c3bd8f439e8328cc13ae30
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Northwest Essex Community Healthcare Networknorm: northwest essex community healthcare network
- Domain
- northwestessex.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Northwest Essex Community Healthcare Networknorm: northwest essex community healthcare network
- Domain
- northwestessex.org
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 18, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 7, 2016
- Affected individuals
- 540
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 25 weeks(172 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day late · 172dHHS notified · 172d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Apr 18, 2016→ Notified: Oct 7, 2016172d 60 days HIPAA 60-day late HIPAA Discovered: Apr 18, 2016→ Notified: Oct 7, 2016172d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.