WASHINGTONPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 26, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

20,192

Linked

14 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center →4 incidents on file

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (WA) reported to HHS on 2023-12-26 a Loss affecting 20,192 individuals. A laptop containing PHI was lost or stolen from an employee during travel. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media; provided substitute notice and complimentary credit monitoring; and implemented additional safeguards with staff retraining.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d

⚠ 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

Dec 26, 2023

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 14 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by hunters_international about this victim predates this filing by 32 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_00321461c9a219542023-12-22 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_055977ba69ddd4322023-12-22 · +4dVerified by operator
Montana State AGbd_390649f2c75439432023-12-22 · +4dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_632cb3e03653a6452023-12-22 · +4dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 219d gap

HHS OCRbd_734a45a1ef5248522023-12-22 · +4dVerified
Washington State AGbd_b7c7ee56fd79dc242023-12-22 · +4dVerified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_12adcd78f9e863af2023-12-20 · +6dVerified by operator
Washington State AGbd_925ee43ceec80c672024-02-29 · +65dVerified
Montana State AGbd_939adbdc1316f7952024-02-29 · +65dVerified by operator
Illinois State AGbd_e82634db0b6646752024-08-01 · +219dVerified by operator

Showing first 10 of 13 linked disclosures.

Name: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
norm: fred hutchinson cancer center
Domain: fredhutch.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
norm: fred hutchinson cancer center
Domain: fredhutch.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,192nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notification

During the incident: Notified HHS OCR
Notified affected individuals
Media notification
Substitute notice provided
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff retraining
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards
Staff retrained
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >30dHHS 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.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 7 states

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Vermont State AGDec 20 · first

Oregon State AG+2d

California State AG+2d

Montana State AG+2d

Massachusetts State AG+2d

HHS OCR+2d

Washington State AG+2d

HHS OCR+6d · this page

Washington State AG+71d

Montana State AG+71d

Illinois State AG+225d

Pattern: first filing Dec 20 (VT), last Aug 1 (IL) — a 225-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 13 — the full spread may be wider.

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: Dec 26, 2023
Raw hash: 13d83c8fc383fa4b76ef82e7500ee45d4f1f529e2e2b360c6dcac7d3675822f3

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Victim entityFred Hutchinson Cancer Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS OCR

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing