WASHINGTONMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

King County Public Hospital District No. 2

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 22, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

20,533

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for King County Public Hospital District No. 2 →3 incidents on file

King County Public Hospital District No. 2 d/b/a EvergreenHealth reported to HHS on 2022-04-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 20,533 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate suffered a ransomware attack exposing PHI including names, diagnoses, medications, and dates of birth. The CE implemented additional technical safeguards.

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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

Apr 22, 2022

Filed

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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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_c665ec48af1bbfeb2022-04-22Candidate

Name: King County Public Hospital District No. 2
norm: king county public hospital district no 2
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: King County Public Hospital District No. 2
norm: king county public hospital district no 2
Also named: King County Public Hospital District No. 2dba oflegal entity
EvergreenHealthdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,533nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented additional technical safeguards to better protected its PHI
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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Washington State AGApr 22 · first

HHS OCRApr 22 · first · this page

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: Apr 22, 2022
Raw hash: 82c37528bd88f1bb0a7254f50471795c7b6524bf7e3ee541ef92f017b4053b73

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKing County Public Hospital District No. 2

Victim entityKing County Public Hospital District No. 2

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing