DisclosureLens
KENTUCKYHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Waystar

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 25, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,021

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Waystar →2 incidents on file

Waystar Health reported to HHS on 2020-08-25 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1021 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The BA reported that ePHI of 1,021 individuals was viewable via the Internet, including names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and diagnoses/conditions. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice to its website. Upon discovering this incident, the BA implemented new administrative and technical safeguards to better protect sensitive data.

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

Aug 25, 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.Confirmed1,021 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.