ILLINOISSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Sarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 16, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

4,845

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Sarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital →2 incidents on file

Sarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital (IL) reported to HHS on 2024-10-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,845 individuals. An employee was the target of an email phishing scheme that compromised PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license and Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Breached information located on Email.

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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

Oct 16, 2024

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.Confirmed4,845 affectedView incident

Name: Sarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital
norm: sarah bush lincoln fayette county hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital
norm: sarah bush lincoln fayette county hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,845nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
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: Oct 16, 2024
Raw hash: af610065801c6b87220e39848345be151ef9fee3c126e590d6522de5911547de

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Reporting entitySarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital

Victim entitySarah Bush Lincoln Fayette County Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing