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NEW YORKSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

BryLin Hospitals, Incorporated

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 17, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

8,000

Confidence

94%
Full breach record for BryLin Hospitals, Incorporated →

BryLin Hospitals, Inc. (NY) reported an email phishing attack in which an employee fell victim, exposing ePHI of approximately 8,000 individuals. Compromised data included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. The hospital notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided substitute notice, and 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

Oct 17, 2020

Filed

—

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.Confirmed8,000 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.