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PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)CriticalResolved

Women's Health Care Group of PA, LLC

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

Filed

Jul 15, 2017

To disclose

Affected

300,000

Confidence

96%

Women's Health Care Group of PA, LLC, a Pennsylvania healthcare provider, reported to HHS OCR on 2017-07-15 that a ransomware attack affected ePHI of 300,000 individuals stored on a desktop computer and network server. Compromised data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR provided technical assistance and obtained assurances of corrective actions.

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

Jul 15, 2017

Filed

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.Confirmed300,000 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.