FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Winter Haven Hospital, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 8, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

2,101

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Winter Haven Hospital, Inc. →

Winter Haven Hospital reported to HHS on 2024-05-08 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2101 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A workforce member sent PHI (names, DOB, email, phone, dates of service) to the wrong recipient. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. The CE sanctioned the employee and provided retraining on email security.

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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

May 8, 2024

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.Confirmed2,101 affectedView incident

Name: Winter Haven Hospital, Inc.
norm: winter haven hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Winter Haven Hospital, Inc.
norm: winter haven hospital
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,101nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: notified HHS

During the incident: Sanctioned the employee
Provided retraining on email security
Changes made: Provided retraining on email security
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: May 8, 2024
Raw hash: 0cbd972e7fb2ebd35ecaee90a1bb8a9af748c4805a39d879d0c1276810d06cdf

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Reporting entityWinter Haven Hospital, Inc.

Victim entityWinter Haven Hospital, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing