VERMONTMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
North Country Hospital
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Full breach record for North Country Hospital →North Country Hospital reported to HHS on 2021-04-16 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware attack via its business associate) affecting 1,905 individuals. The business associate was the direct victim; breached ePHI was stored on a Network Server and included names, dates of birth, prescription information, and medical record numbers. OCR provided the CE with technical assistance on business associate agreements.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,905 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
- Apr 16, 2021
- Raw hash
- 016e67886559c62c6aa4f26a405a0ac2b07ef56bb398631a50defc5aabf1c9e1
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- North Country Hospitalnorm: north country hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- North Country Hospitalnorm: north country hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,905
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided the covered entity with technical assistance concerning business associate agreements.
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.