FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

BETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 29, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

18,477

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for BETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC. →

Bethesda Hospital reported to HHS on 2021-01-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 18477 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee impermissibly accessed ePHI including names, DOB, addresses, health insurance, clinical info, and SSNs. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, sanctioned the employee, retrained staff, and added administrative safeguards.

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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 29, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed18,477 affectedView incident

Name: BETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC.
norm: bethesda hospital
Domain: bethesdah.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: BETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC.
norm: bethesda hospital
Domain: bethesdah.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 18,477nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
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: OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the Breach Notification Rule
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Sanctioned the responsible employee
Retrained workforce members on the requirements to protect patient privacy and security
Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards were added to better protect its ePHI
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 29, 2021
Raw hash: b15f5d66fa48a71077df6e6f4f1717e25457ffaf590ffe61a03c4204b745a14e

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Reporting entityBETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC.

Victim entityBETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the responsible employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing