PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareBlackCatPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighContained

LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 15, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

248,359

Linked

3 records

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC. →3 incidents on file

Lehigh Valley Health Network reported to HHS on 2023-05-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 248,359 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved BlackCat ransomware.

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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

May 15, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Ransomware claims (2)

Leak Sitealphvbd_20eae006d550c1a02023-03-10 · +66dVerified by operator
Leak Sitealphvbd_af75d5957355cee52023-03-04 · +72dCandidate

Name: LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.
norm: lehigh valley health network
Domain: lvhn.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.
norm: lehigh valley health network
Domain: lvhn.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 248,359nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· BlackCat
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: BlackCatExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

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: May 15, 2023
Raw hash: 51f88f58320ffb6233569b73b526691fc992a592d3be7fd54f82095258aad7b4

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Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (2)

Reporting entityLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.

Victim entityLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing