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ARKANSASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Methodist Family Health

bd_9c7e45eea3060fd5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 3, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

5,259

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Methodist Family Health →

Methodist Family Health, a healthcare provider, reported a ransomware attack affecting 5,259 individuals, with the breach reported to HHS on May 3, 2023. The compromised protected health information (PHI) was located on a network server and included names, addresses, dates of birth, clinical diagnoses, treatment, lab results, and medications. In response, the entity implemented enhanced security safeguards.

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 3, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,259 affectedView incident

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.