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PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighContained

Allegheny Health Network

bd_8fed6fea7fff8035 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 3, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

299,507

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Allegheny Health Network →

Allegheny Health Network reported to HHS on 2020-12-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 299,507 individuals. A business associate experienced a ransomware attack affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) located on a network server. The ePHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, and treatment information. The entity notified HHS, 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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 3, 2020

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed299,507 affectedView incident

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.