PENNSYLVANIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Susquehanna Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 27, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

657

Confidence

69%

Susquehanna Health reported to HHS on 2014-03-27 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 657 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee impermissibly disclosed PHI to an insurer during a routine claims request, including names, SSNs, DOBs, and diagnosis codes. The entity notified HHS and individuals, offered credit monitoring, and ensured data deletion/shredding.

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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

Mar 27, 2014

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.Confirmed657 affectedView incident

Name: Susquehanna Health
norm: susquehanna health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Susquehanna Health
norm: susquehanna health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 657nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained and reviewed copies of the CE’s policies and proceduresAs a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE sanctioned the staff member

During the incident: Ensured that all recipients of the PHI deleted the data from their computers and shredded all hard copies
Sanctioned the staff member
Retrained the entire department
Revised its email policies
Provided breach notification to HHS and affected individuals
Offered one year of free identity theft protection and credit monitoring to affected individuals
Changes made: Retrained the entire department
Revised its email policies
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.

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: Mar 27, 2014
Raw hash: ef10b6a5a926aced8c1c972617ee124ab13e6de40b7ec14ed879d4a4971b51cd

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Reporting entitySusquehanna Health

Victim entitySusquehanna Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEnsured that all recipients of the PHI deleted the data from their computers and shredded all hard copies

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing