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KALEIDA HEALTH

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 25, 2017

To disclose

Affected

744

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for KALEIDA HEALTH

Kaleida Health (Buffalo, NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-08-25 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 744 individuals. Numerous employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI including names, medical record numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. No business associate was involved. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, revised policies and procedures, and retrained its workforce. OCR obtained assurances corrective actions were implemented.

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

Aug 25, 2017

Filed

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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRJul 21 · first
HHS OCR+35d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 21 (NY), last Aug 25 (NY) — a 35-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.