HackingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
The Chattanooga Heart Institute
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Full breach record for The Chattanooga Heart Institute →The Chattanooga Heart Institute experienced a cybersecurity attack where an unauthorized third party accessed its network between March 8 and March 16, 2023. The Institute discovered indications of the attack on April 17, 2023, and confirmed data access on May 31, 2023. Patient and guarantor information, including PHI and potentially government IDs, was accessed. The Institute engaged forensic vendors, notified law enforcement and HHS, and provided credit monitoring to 15 New Hampshire residents via Epiq starting July 28, 2023.
Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >90d25 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by karakurt about this victim predates this filing by 136 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_0442e5051ee13782Maine State AGfiled 2023-10-06Candidate
- bd_41c7c1f47282b3aaVermont State AGfiled 2023-10-06Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/chattanooga-heart-institute-20231006.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 6, 2023
- Raw hash
- 45594b7eac8ead8a4115250d490a3b584d7f959f823179153a2ef17ce95021fb
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Chattanooga Heart Institutenorm: the chattanooga heart institute
Victim entity
- Name
- The Chattanooga Heart Institutenorm: the chattanooga heart institute
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 17, 2023
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jul 28, 2023
- Affected individuals
- 15
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified federal law enforcementNotified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to HIPAAProvided written notice to relevant state regulators
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 25 weeks(172 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- Leak >90d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.