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LOUISIANASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Lake Charles Memorial Health System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 1, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

3,802

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Lake Charles Memorial Health System →2 incidents on file

Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LA) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-02-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3,802 individuals. An employee of its business associate was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI including names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, financial information, and health insurance information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

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

Feb 1, 2021

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.Confirmed3,802 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.