MICHIGANHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Northwood, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 15, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

5,563

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Northwood, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Northwood, Inc reported to HHS on 2019-07-15 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 5563 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of an email phishing scheme affecting PHI including names, addresses, DOB, and health insurance info. Northwood notified HHS, individuals, media, and FBI, and implemented additional safeguards.

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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

Jul 15, 2019

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_16b3901825b8115e2019-07-15Verified
Montana State AGbd_191444b326d59f102019-07-15Verified
Oregon State AGbd_639c50815a8fcebf2019-07-15Verified
California State AGbd_7e7953fef7b021c82019-07-15Verified

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Washington State AGbd_c289eff5b4ca87792019-07-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e60f94c96da1fb792019-07-15Candidate
HHS OCRbd_1768919779e848922019-07-16 · +1dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_3a593e7557edc9f52019-07-16 · +1dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_04b075f72f69eecc2019-07-12 · +3dVerified

Name: Northwood
norm: northwood
Domain: northwoodmfg.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Northwood, Inc.
norm: northwood
Domain: northwoodinc.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,563nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that Northwood implemented the corrective action noted
Third party: via Blue Care Networkbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and the FBI
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 7 states

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HHS OCRJul 12 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+3d

California State AG+3d

Washington State AG+3d

New Hampshire State AG+3d

HHS OCR+3d · this page

HHS OCR+4d

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: Jul 15, 2019
Raw hash: a98ee0097aad8d2e93450cab973bd796f0349a767ade25bc7acae20d47c5fa2b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwood

Victim entityNorthwood, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and the FBI

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing