PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

GEISINGER HEALTH

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 23, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

717

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for GEISINGER HEALTH →4 incidents on file

Geisinger Health reported to HHS on 2020-09-23 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 717 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A workforce member impermissibly accessed ePHI including names, SSNs, addresses, birthdates, medications, diagnoses, and lab results. The employee was sanctioned and additional safeguards implemented.

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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

Sep 23, 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.Confirmed717 affectedView incident

Name: GEISINGER HEALTH
norm: geisinger health
Domain: mychart.mycarecompass.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: GEISINGER HEALTH
norm: geisinger health
Domain: mychart.mycarecompass.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 717nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its 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: Sep 23, 2020
Raw hash: 1122ec2dacba37902d432aaafd50f643dc1082a0ec7e1f96c71567727278eb29

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Reporting entityGEISINGER HEALTH

Victim entityGEISINGER HEALTH

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing