TEXASHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Seton Family of Hospitals

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 24, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

39,000

Confidence

68%

Seton Family of Hospitals reported to HHS on 2015-04-24 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 39,000 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The incident involved two email phishing attacks exposing PHI including names, DOBs, SSNs, and treatment info.

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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

Apr 24, 2015

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.Confirmed39,000 affectedView incident

Name: Seton Family of Hospitals
norm: seton family of hospitals
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Seton Family of Hospitals
norm: seton family of hospitals
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately disable affected email accounts
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Improved technical security
Retrained staff
Changes made: Improved technical security
Retrained staff
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: Apr 24, 2015
Raw hash: ddc7400e1c0119cce5cb61c246e805cf79ca832005b70e79bafd0a35a31d01d3

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Reporting entitySeton Family of Hospitals

Victim entitySeton Family of Hospitals

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately disable affected email accounts

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing