WASHINGTONMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)HighResolved

Kennewick General Hospital dba Trios Health

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Severity

High

Discovered

May 26, 2017

Filed

May 18, 2017

To disclose

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Affected

1,603

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Kennewick General Hospital dba Trios Health reported to HHS on 2017-05-18 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1603 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A workforce member impermissibly accessed PHI outside job scope.

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HIPAA clockDiscovered May 26, 2017 → Notified May 26, 2017✓ HHS notified

⚠ notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

May 18, 2017

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_9c9197a11b669d0f2017-05-26 · +8dVerified

Name: Kennewick General Hospital dba Trios Health
norm: kennewick general hospital trios health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Kennewick General Hospital dba Trios Health
norm: kennewick general hospital trios health
Also named: Kennewick General Hospitaldba oflegal entity
Trios Healthdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: May 26, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 26, 2017
Affected individuals: 1,603nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Investigated the breach
Sanctioned the involved workforce member
Implemented safeguards, including placing additional restrictions on access to PHI
Changes made: Conducted a review of its policies and procedures to determine the potential risks to its PHI and electronic PHI
Revised its policies
Retrained its workforce
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: notification dateThe stored discovery date equals the NOTIFICATION date, collapsing the clock to ~zero. This UNDERSTATES the delay and can mask a real violation.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: May 26, 2017
→ Notified: May 26, 2017
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: May 26, 2017 → Notified: May 26, 2017	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRMay 18 · first · this page

Washington State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing May 18 (WA), last May 26 (WA) — a 8-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 18, 2017
Raw hash: 8aef54843fb41f3d860d2512d188a773d1300e348cda5dc67827d3021d03f19d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKennewick General Hospital dba Trios Health

Victim entityKennewick General Hospital dba Trios Health

Incidentdiscovered May 26, 2017

Stated responseInvestigated the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing