TNHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved

Decatur County General Hospital

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Decatur County General Hospital (Decatur County, TN) reported to HHS on 2018-01-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 24,000 individuals (the web description cites 50,496). Unauthorized software was installed on a network server used to store and access patient data. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, drivers' license numbers, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE replaced the affected server, engaged forensic investigators, and implemented additional safeguards. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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.Confirmed24,000 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: Jan 26, 2018
Raw hash: 9e4f26bc1a27281bb836b54973d4258c1d2e805d5b552afa36e42ee6ca0bc415

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Decatur County General Hospital
norm: decatur county general hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Decatur County General Hospital
norm: decatur county general hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 24,000
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1072 Software Deployment ToolsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions

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

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.