MARYLANDSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialHealth (basic)HighResolved

Hebrew Home of Greater Washington

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 17, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

5,693

Confidence

96%

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Hebrew Home of Greater Washington (MD healthcare provider) reported that an employee fell victim to an email phishing attack, exposing ePHI of 5,693 individuals. Compromised data included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice, implemented additional technical safeguards, and retrained staff. OCR confirmed implementation of corrective actions.

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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 17, 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.Confirmed5,693 affectedView incident

Name: Hebrew Home of Greater Washington
norm: hebrew home of greater washington

Name: Hebrew Home of Greater Washington
norm: hebrew home of greater washington
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,693nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Phishing
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
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 17, 2020
Raw hash: 762d0c7aba9cb730c890ff92c3370b79435ec174c8cbcd8073b5df95dffa6c96

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Reporting entityHebrew Home of Greater Washington

Victim entityHebrew Home of Greater Washington

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing