DisclosureLens
PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Charles Cole Memorial Hospital

bd_80eb8b3784ebf76d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 7, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

7,376

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Charles Cole Memorial Hospital →2 incidents on file

Charles Cole Memorial Hospital d/b/a UPMC Cole (PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-05-07 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 7,376 individuals. The covered entity's business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted ePHI stored on a network server. Exposed ePHI included names, dates of birth, and prescription information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted a substitute notice on its website. The BA strengthened technical safeguards in response.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 7, 2021

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.Confirmed7,376 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.