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Penobscot Community Health Center, Inc.
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Full breach record for Penobscot Community Health Center, Inc. →Penobscot Community Health Center, Inc. (ME) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-05-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2,798 individuals. The covered entity's business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected ePHI stored on a network server. Exposed information included names, dates of birth, and prescription information. The CE notified HHS; the business associate notified affected individuals and the media.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,798 affectedView incident
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
- May 26, 2021
- Raw hash
- b7e35c0c64d613099e7fc1e726b5dc7cffd322c21f93e0a4e492d1485e230aa7
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Penobscot Community Health Center, Inc.norm: penobscot community health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Penobscot Community Health Center, Inc.norm: penobscot community health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,798
- 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 by covered entity
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.