HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowContained

Saint Alphonsus Health System

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 6, 2021

Filed

Mar 4, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Saint Alphonsus Health System →

Saint Alphonsus Health System notified patients of unauthorized access to an employee email account between January 4 and January 6, 2021. The incident potentially exposed PHI, including names, addresses, dates of birth, and medical record/treatment information. The organization secured the account and offered one year of identity monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

Jan 4, 2021

Begins

Jan 6, 2021

Discovered

Mar 4, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_59ef7b672a01c3802021-03-04Candidate
Oregon State AGbd_bd2986380c1ca3292021-03-04Verified
Illinois State AGbd_beca9b514c566ae82021-01-01 · +62dCandidate

Name: Saint Alphonsus Health System
norm: saint alphonsus health system

Name: Saint Alphonsus Health System
norm: saint alphonsus health system
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jan 6, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 4, 2021 – Jan 6, 2021
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the employee’s email account
Re-training employees in an effort to avoid being involved in future cyber-attacks
Provided one year of free identity monitoring services through Kroll
Established a call center for questions and concerns
Changes made: Re-training employees in an effort to avoid being involved in future cyber-attacks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

HHS OCR+62d

Oregon State AG+62d

California State AG+62d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 4 (CA) — a 62-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-538900
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2021
Raw hash: d23aab464af892f4c8524d911de1f7fda0b5c00d421fc51ae4b98c0f90984326

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySaint Alphonsus Health System

Victim entitySaint Alphonsus Health System

Incidentdiscovered Jan 6, 2021

Stated responseSecured the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov