CONNECTICUTSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Saint Francis Healthcare, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 4, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

38,529

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Saint Francis Healthcare, Inc. →

Saint Francis Healthcare Partners (CT, Business Associate) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-05-04 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 38,529 individuals. Multiple employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI, including names, diagnoses, health insurance information, and treatment/clinical information stored in Email systems. Following the breach, the entity implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards and retrained staff on identifying fraudulent emails.

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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

May 4, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed38,529 affectedView incident

Name: Saint Francis Healthcare, Inc.
norm: saint francis healthcare
Domain: saintfrancishci.com

Name: Saint Francis Healthcare, Inc.
norm: saint francis healthcare
Domain: saintfrancishci.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 38,529nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members on identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Enhanced email security controls
Employee phishing awareness retraining
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: May 4, 2020
Raw hash: 844d52fa5fe5d3c2b8e0a9d14b0293e394b10c036921a40a3f233c78a69d010e

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Reporting entitySaint Francis Healthcare, Inc.

Victim entitySaint Francis Healthcare, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing