HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

North Broward Hospital District

bd_9cebea73a9d76880 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 19, 2021

Filed

Jan 3, 2022

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

633state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for North Broward Hospital District →

North Broward Hospital District (d/b/a Broward Health) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data breach affecting 633 NH residents. Unauthorized access occurred on October 15, 2021, via a third-party medical provider's credentials. The intrusion was discovered on October 19, 2021. Exfiltrated data included PHI, SSNs, financial account info, and employee PII. The FBI and DOJ were notified; notification to residents was delayed per DOJ request until January 1, 2022. Remediation included password resets, MFA implementation, and third-party forensic investigation.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 76 days

Oct 15, 2021

Begins

Oct 19, 2021

Discovered

Jan 3, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_226b9006d748d3bd2022-01-02 · +1dVerified
HHS OCRbd_8005a0ba482c26af2022-01-02 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_1afcc7a8b735c4d52022-01-01 · +2dVerified
Montana State AGbd_77fabe65e122cd082022-01-01 · +2dCandidate

Name: North Broward Hospital District
norm: north broward hospital district

Name: North Broward Hospital District
norm: north broward hospital district
Also named: North Broward Hospital Districtdba oflegal entity
Broward Healthdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Oct 19, 2021
Breach occurred: Oct 15, 2021
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 1, 2022
Affected individuals: 633state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ)DOJ requested that Broward Health delay any notification through December 31, 2021
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Promptly contained the incident upon discovery
Notified the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ)
Required all employees to update their passwords
Engaged an independent cybersecurity firm to conduct an extensive investigation
Changes made: Required a password reset with enhanced security measures across the enterprise
Implementation of multifactor authentication for all users of its systems
Implementation of additional minimum-security requirements for devices that are not managed by Broward Health Information Technology that access the network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(76 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AGJan 1 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

HHS OCR+1d

New Hampshire State AG+2d · this page

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/north-broward-hospital-district-dba-broward-health-20220103.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 3, 2022
Raw hash: 458a896b644b54e5df8e398c111ef2606f3f41cea858897f5687afc63fcd5828

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorth Broward Hospital District

Victim entityNorth Broward Hospital District

Incidentdiscovered Oct 19, 2021

Stated responsePromptly contained the incident upon discovery

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov