DisclosureLens
NORTH CAROLINAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)High

Lutheran Services Carolinas

bd_832000b7234d5329 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 12, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,226

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Lutheran Services Carolinas →2 incidents on file

The business associate (BA), Lutheran Services Carolinas, reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 1,226 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional technical safeguards and provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals. OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

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

Apr 12, 2022

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.Confirmed1,226 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.