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Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 18, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

805

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center →3 incidents on file

Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (PA) reported to HHS on 2020-05-18 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 805 individuals. A workforce member impermissibly accessed ePHI stored in Electronic Medical Records, including names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The CE sanctioned the responsible employees and implemented additional administrative 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 18, 2020

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.Confirmed805 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.