ALABAMAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Escambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 12, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,090

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Escambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc. →

Escambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc. D/B/A Atmore Community Hospital reported to HHS on 2017-01-12 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1090 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A unit secretary viewed records outside job scope.

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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

Jan 12, 2017

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.Confirmed1,090 affectedView incident

Name: Escambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc.
norm: escambia county alabama community hospitals
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Escambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc.
norm: escambia county alabama community hospitals
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Escambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Atmore Community Hospitaldba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,090nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Sanctioned the involved employee
Reviewed its record audit procedures
Implemented an additional access control mechanism for patient records from the emergency department
Retrained all employees
Changes made: Reviewed its record audit procedures
Implemented an additional access control mechanism for patient records from the emergency department
Retrained all employees
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: Jan 12, 2017
Raw hash: d30958774d6804d39def89dac1894ffea274389b87e176c3f60572d55fe6cb6d

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Reporting entityEscambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc.

Victim entityEscambia County Alabama Community Hospitals, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the involved employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing