HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)PIIHighContained

HCA Healthcare Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jul 5, 2023

Filed

Aug 31, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

322,000state residents only

Linked

11 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for HCA Healthcare Inc. →4 incidents on file

HCA Healthcare notified patients of a data breach discovered on July 5, 2023. An unauthorized party accessed an external storage location used for email formatting automation in late June 2023. Exposed data included names, contact info, DOB, and gender, but no PHI, SSNs, or financial data. HCA disabled access, notified law enforcement, and engaged forensic advisors. Affected individuals were offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

Jun 1, 2023

Begins

Jul 5, 2023

Discovered

Aug 31, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 11 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_469b4c05c3cce8b62023-08-30 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_e1ece1715cd497062023-08-29 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_ff2e8ab93fef2eeb2023-08-29 · +2dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a60290f5c43261202023-08-28 · +3dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 52d gap

Idaho State AGbd_ba5937f7f4bf868d2023-08-28 · +3dVerified
California State AGbd_64b2526179555bbb2023-08-01 · +30dVerified
Washington State AGbd_9b908244a6dec3212023-08-01 · +30dVerified
HHS OCRbd_71092e6fb24830ae2023-07-31 · +31dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_35790d97fa0a28592023-07-14 · +48dVerified
SEC 8-Kbd_2da8bd258eae08062023-07-10 · +52dCandidate

Name: HCA Healthcare Inc.
norm: hca healthcare
Domain: hcahealthcare.com

Name: HCA Healthcare Inc.
norm: hca healthcare
Domain: hcahealthcare.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jul 5, 2023
Breach occurred: Jun 1, 2023
Undetected for: 34 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 322,000state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: reported this event to law enforcement
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled user access to the aforementioned storage location
Reported this event to law enforcement
Retained third-party forensic and threat intelligence advisors to investigate the incident
Changes made: Reviewing security strategies, systems, and protocols to identify any enhancement opportunities
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

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SEC 8-KJul 10 · first

Delaware State AG+4d

HHS OCR+21d

California State AG+22d

Washington State AG+22d

New Hampshire State AG+49d

Idaho State AG+49d

Montana State AG+50d

Massachusetts State AG+50d

Oregon State AG+51d

South Carolina State AG+52d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 10, last Aug 31 (SC) — a 52-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/HCAHealthcare.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 31, 2023
Raw hash: 3c66290b0da37cf592ceba77ca39cbacef6b56e8e727d02c8bdfbfaa7f12f18e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHCA Healthcare Inc.

Victim entityHCA Healthcare Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 5, 2023

Stated responseDisabled user access to the aforementioned storage location

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov