HackingStolen CredentialsCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPHIIDENTITY_BASICPIILowActive
The Chattanooga Heart Institute
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Full breach record for The Chattanooga Heart Institute →The Chattanooga Heart Institute reported a cybersecurity attack where an unauthorized third party gained access to its network between March 8-16, 2023. The Institute identified indications of the attack on April 17, 2023. Patient PHI and basic identity information were potentially accessed. The Institute notified law enforcement, HHS, and state regulators, and provided credit monitoring via Equifax to affected individuals.
Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d49 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by karakurt about this victim predates this filing by 310 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_a2267e549573aa93Maine State AGfiled 2024-03-28Candidate
- bd_aa1ec43b034d9698Vermont State AGfiled 2024-03-27(1d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/chattanooga-heart-institute-20240328.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 28, 2024
- Raw hash
- cf1c8f438d006b278038ba6cd71f9ff1a7ec57efc35db813a47713efb8c11644
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Chattanooga Heart Institutenorm: the chattanooga heart institute
Victim entity
- Name
- The Chattanooga Heart Institutenorm: the chattanooga heart institute
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 17, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 28, 2023
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PHIIDENTITY_BASICPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- notified federal law enforcementproviding written notice of this incident to relevant state regulatorsnotified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 49 weeks(346 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- Leak >180d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.