MISSOURISocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)CriticalResolved

BJC HEALTH SYSTEM

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

May 5, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

287,876

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for BJC HEALTH SYSTEM →2 incidents on file

BJC Health System (Business Associate, MO) reported to HHS on 2020-05-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 287,876 individuals via an email phishing scheme. Several employees were compromised. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medical conditions, lab results, and medications prescribed. Breached information located in Email. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and media; provided credit monitoring; and retrained staff on email security.

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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

May 5, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed287,876 affectedView incident

Name: BJC HEALTH SYSTEM
norm: bjc health system
Industry: Business Associate

Name: BJC HEALTH SYSTEM
norm: bjc health system
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 287,876nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Third party: via BJC Health Systembusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services
Changes made: Strengthened administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services
Notified affected individuals, media, and provided substitute notice
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.

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: May 5, 2020
Raw hash: 2bb98454b2b17fe6681b42e68e15c03c1d9cae0e55f55e5f637c594ab61f4c5f

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Reporting entityBJC HEALTH SYSTEM

Victim entityBJC HEALTH SYSTEM

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing