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Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
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Full breach record for Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center →Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2010-12-28 a Theft/insider misuse incident affecting 2,928 individuals. A staff physician emailed PHI—including names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, and medication information—to his personal home email account while working on an analysis. The CE sanctioned the physician, implemented auto-encryption for PHI emailed externally, improved physical safeguards, and retrained staff following OCR investigation. Breached information was located on Email.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,928 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 28, 2010
- Raw hash
- 5a9c86c337d89faf90f74f788510917fdb474eee6eaac90c6b5fc68fa31f3ff7
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Centernorm: geisinger wyoming valley medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Centernorm: geisinger wyoming valley medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,928
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation conducted; CE improved physical safeguards and retrained employees
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.