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CITY OF HOPE
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Full breach record for CITY OF HOPE →City of Hope reported to HHS on 2016-03-04 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1024 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The breach involved a phishing email containing an embedded link that granted unauthorized access to employee email accounts, exposing patient PHI including names, MRNs, DOBs, addresses, clinical data, and one SSN.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified7 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,024 affectedView incident
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
- Mar 4, 2016
- Raw hash
- a9a49f1a01b216b9d3982c8a9b0fd0bbe3ef9437d9209cc59a370179f8bd7e72
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- CITY OF HOPEnorm: city of hope
- Domain
- cityofhope.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- CITY OF HOPEnorm: city of hope
- Domain
- cityofhope.org
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 18, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,024
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 7 weeks(46 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jan 18, 2016→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.