PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)AuthenticationMediumResolved

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.

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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

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed805 affectedView incident

Name: Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
norm: geisinger wyoming valley medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
norm: geisinger wyoming valley medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 805nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Authentication
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Sanctioned responsible employees
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Changes made: Sanctioned responsible employees
Implemented additional administrative safeguards to protect ePHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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, 2020
Raw hash: 84afdad8ef84e8536aee74051e68ec3742889bd6127037108ed41617c2c3e0eb

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Reporting entityGeisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

Victim entityGeisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing