DisclosureLens
PENNSYLVANIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

UPMC Susquehanna

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 15, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,208

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for UPMC Susquehanna →2 incidents on file

UPMC Susquehanna reported to HHS on 2017-11-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1208 individuals. An unauthorized individual gained access to 11 staff email accounts via a phishing email, exposing protected health information including names, dates of birth, social security numbers, addresses, and clinical information. The breach location was Email. In response, the entity implemented stricter password policies and two-factor authentication.

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

Nov 15, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,208 affectedView incident

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.