FLORIDASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Health First Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 31, 2018

Filed

Oct 5, 2018

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

42,000

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Health First Inc. →2 incidents on file

Health First, Inc reported to HHS on 2018-10-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 42000 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A phishing attack compromised 38 email accounts beginning in February 2018, affecting the PHI of 41,810 individuals.

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HIPAA clock✗ HHS report late18 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 119 days

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 127 days

Feb 1, 2018

Begins

May 31, 2018

Discovered

Oct 5, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed42,000 affectedView incident

Name: Health First Inc.
norm: health first
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Health First Inc.
norm: health first
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: May 31, 2018
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2018 – May 31, 2018
Undetected for: 119 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 42,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (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: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Sanctioned and retrained employees
Revised technical safeguards for its email system
Enhanced its user activity monitoring procedures
Changes made: Revised technical safeguards for its email system
Enhanced its user activity monitoring procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(127 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report lateHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: May 31, 2018
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report late
HIPAA
Discovered: May 31, 2018
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: May 31, 2018 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report late
HIPAA	Discovered: May 31, 2018 → 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 5, 2018
Raw hash: 1aed84f24d2e3b54e81fccb14e0b1e6fe7a11429aa6a292d79a51ad97f2d1d48

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Reporting entityHealth First Inc.

Victim entityHealth First Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 31, 2018

Stated responseSanctioned and retrained employees

ComplianceHHS report late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing