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ARKANSASHackingHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Howard Memorial Hospital

bd_7ab7cf8276fa8813 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 31, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

17,703

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Howard Memorial Hospital →3 incidents on file

Howard Health Systems dba Howard Memorial Hospital reported to HHS on 2025-03-31 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 17,703 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The cyberattack compromised PHI including names, dates of birth, clinical information, medical record numbers, and patient account numbers. The entity implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards.

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

Mar 31, 2025

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.Confirmed17,703 affectedView incident

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.