PhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

St. Elizabeth Healthcare

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 5, 2019

Filed

Mar 7, 2019

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

St. Elizabeth Healthcare notified employees that a USB drive containing employee PII (name, DOB, SSN, employee ID) was stolen from an employee's home on Feb 5, 2019. The drive was unencrypted. The company offered one year of Experian credit monitoring and enhanced USB blocking controls.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Feb 5, 2019

Begins

Feb 5, 2019

Discovered

Mar 7, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: St. Elizabeth Healthcare
norm: st. elizabeth health

Name: St. Elizabeth Healthcare
norm: st. elizabeth health
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Feb 5, 2019
Breach occurred: Feb 5, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 7, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: employee reported the theft to law enforcement

During the incident: Began an investigation to determine what information was contained on the USB drive
Employee reported the theft to law enforcement
Offering a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s IdentityWorks Credit 3B
Reinforcing employee education on data security
Enhancing technological controls in blocking the use of USB drives from our workstations
Changes made: Reinforcing employee education on data security and our policy against removing sensitive information from St. Elizabeth’s premises without authorization
Enhancing technological controls in blocking the use of USB drives from our workstations
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/CON-2019.03.07-MT-AG-Notice-StEliz.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 7, 2019
Raw hash: ed4cc7ae1a5217c33eeeeb2ac979d086c1fd65f598bd1ddd5e746a29c588aa55

Reporting entitySt. Elizabeth Healthcare

Victim entitySt. Elizabeth Healthcare

Incidentdiscovered Feb 5, 2019

Stated responseBegan an investigation to determine what information was contained on the USB drive

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov