MisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)PHILowActive

North Country Hospital

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 7, 2024

Filed

Apr 19, 2024

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for North Country Hospital →3 incidents on file

North Country Hospital (Vermont) notified consumers on April 19, 2024, regarding a breach discovered on March 7, 2024. A former employee who left on February 20, 2024, may have taken physical records containing patient names, DOB, medical record numbers, phone numbers, and limited medical information. The hospital attempted to contact the former employee but could not determine the full scope of records taken. The incident status remains active/uncertain.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday6 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 16 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Feb 20, 2024

Begins

Mar 7, 2024

Discovered

Apr 19, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: North Country Hospital
norm: north country hospital

Name: North Country Hospital
norm: north country hospital
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 7, 2024
Breach occurred: Feb 20, 2024
Undetected for: 16 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 19, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)PHI
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Attempted to investigate this potential unauthorized removal of the records
Attempted to contact the former employee to ascertain what occurred
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-04-19-north-country-hospital-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 19, 2024
Raw hash: 0af11db345f2966be3a9d658bb082e6fd9e0da9b11a6322bfa76d0e21941e0ad

Reporting entityNorth Country Hospital

Victim entityNorth Country Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Mar 7, 2024

Stated responseAttempted to investigate this potential unauthorized removal of the records

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov