MICHIGANSocial EngineeringHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedTargetedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MetadataLowResolved

Northwood, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 16, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

583

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Northwood, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Northwood, Inc., a Business Associate (BA) of Blue Care Network and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (MI), reported to HHS on 2019-07-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 583 individuals (approximately 18,684 per the description). An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance information, and treatment information. Breached information located on Email. Northwood notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and the FBI, and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

Jul 16, 2019

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_1768919779e848922019-07-16Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_16b3901825b8115e2019-07-15 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_191444b326d59f102019-07-15 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_639c50815a8fcebf2019-07-15 · +1dVerified

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California State AGbd_7e7953fef7b021c82019-07-15 · +1dVerified
HHS OCRbd_7f2db47cb52e499c2019-07-15 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_c289eff5b4ca87792019-07-15 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e60f94c96da1fb792019-07-15 · +1dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_04b075f72f69eecc2019-07-12 · +4dVerified

Name: Northwood
norm: northwood
Domain: northwoodmfg.com
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Northwood, Inc.
norm: northwood
Domain: northwoodinc.com
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 583nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Metadata
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that Northwood implemented corrective actionNotified FBI
Initial access: phishing_attachment

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Notified the FBI
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 7 states

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HHS OCRJul 12 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+3d

California State AG+3d

HHS OCR+3d

Washington State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

HHS OCR+4d

HHS OCR+4d · this page

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: Jul 16, 2019
Raw hash: 58f1ae93dd3363020c3a311b8d085ba360e0242abfcd8b4d2edf9a8965d15787

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwood

Victim entityNorthwood, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing