PENNSYLVANIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Wilkes-Barre General Hospital

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 27, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

518

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Wilkes-Barre General Hospital →

Wilkes-Barre General Hospital reported to HHS on 2020-04-27 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 518 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A tornado struck the medical records storage facility leased by business associate STAT Informatic Solutions, LLC, exposing PHI including diagnosis, lab results, and financial information.

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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

Apr 27, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed518 affectedView incident

Name: Wilkes-Barre General Hospital
norm: wilkes barre general hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Wilkes-Barre General Hospital
norm: wilkes barre general hospital
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 518nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via STAT Informatic Solutions, LLCbusiness associate

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Initiated a clean-up of the area to collect whatever records were recoverable
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.

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: Apr 27, 2020
Raw hash: c59c057021410ad558d228aafc66b194f841e563f01d86b0fc8687db7470475b

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Reporting entityWilkes-Barre General Hospital

Victim entityWilkes-Barre General Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing