IDAHOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountCriticalResolved

Saint Alphonsus Health System

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 4, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

134,906

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Saint Alphonsus Health System →

Saint Alphonsus Health System (ID) reported to HHS on 2021-03-04 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 134,906 individuals. An employee was the victim of a phishing scheme exposing ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, health insurance, claims and financial information, lab results, and medications. Breached information located in Email systems. No business associate was involved. OCR provided technical assistance; the CE retrained staff and implemented additional 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

Mar 4, 2021

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_8ed3b86c841639cb2021-03-04Verified
Oregon State AGbd_bd2986380c1ca3292021-03-04Verified
Illinois State AGbd_beca9b514c566ae82021-01-01 · +62dCandidate

Name: Saint Alphonsus Health System
norm: saint alphonsus health system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Saint Alphonsus Health System
norm: saint alphonsus health system
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 134,906nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
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 the CE with technical assistance.
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.
Retrained workforce members on identifying fraudulent email communications.
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI.
Workforce retraining on identifying phishing/fraudulent email communications.
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

California State AG+62d

Oregon State AG+62d

HHS OCR+62d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 4 (ID) — a 62-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Mar 4, 2021
Raw hash: f928b0933db0553482c5197fb011ac9cc84eb3768d4749c5d57c007f16df768f

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySaint Alphonsus Health System

Victim entitySaint Alphonsus Health System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing