Northwood
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Full breach record for Northwood →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.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_1768919779e84892HHS OCRfiled 2019-07-16Candidate
- bd_191444b326d59f10Montana State AGfiled 2019-07-15(1d gap)Verified
- bd_639c50815a8fcebfOregon State AGfiled 2019-07-15(1d gap)Verified
- bd_7e7953fef7b021c8California State AGfiled 2019-07-15(1d gap)Verified
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- bd_7f2db47cb52e499cHHS OCRfiled 2019-07-15(1d gap)Verified
- bd_04b075f72f69eeccHHS OCRfiled 2019-07-12(4d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- Northwoodnorm: northwood
- Domain
- northwoodmfg.com
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Northwoodnorm: northwood
- Domain
- northwoodmfg.com
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 583
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMETADATA
- 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
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.