WASHINGTONMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Data EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICHighResolved
MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM
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Full breach record for MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM →MultiCare Health System (WA) reported to HHS on 2020-08-22 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware attack) affecting 179,189 individuals. The attack was experienced by a business associate and impacted ePHI stored on a Network Server. Breached information included names, dates of birth, clinical information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice.
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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_568d5164e6287de1Washington State AGfiled 2020-08-21(1d gap)Verified
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
- Aug 22, 2020
- Raw hash
- 588a1313a1163acd0474b82c57023a16ce676c44017351b18c472db90da0d571
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEMnorm: multicare health system
- Domain
- multicare.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEMnorm: multicare health system
- Domain
- multicare.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 179,189
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.