HackingHealthcareTechnologyHealthcareStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumContained

Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 2, 2023

Filed

Sep 22, 2023

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc. (Janssen) notified IBM, its service provider, of unauthorized access to the Janssen CarePath database. IBM and a third-party database provider remediated the technical vulnerability and conducted an investigation. The incident, discovered on August 2, 2023, potentially exposed names and government identifiers (e.g., SSN) for approximately 10,000 Rhode Island residents. No financial account or SSN data was in the database. Affected individuals were offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 51 days

Aug 2, 2023

Discovered

Sep 22, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_33114d6ef501acf42023-09-15 · +7dVerified

Name: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
norm: international business machines
Domain: ibm.com

Name: Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.
norm: johnson and johnson health care
Industry: HealthcarellmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Aug 2, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified state Attorneys General (Delaware, DC, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico)
Third party: via International Business Machines Corporation
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Notified IBM
Working with the third-party database provider, IBM promptly remediated the issue
Undertook an investigation to assess whether there had been unauthorized access
Identified and implemented steps that disabled the technical method at issue
Augmented security controls to reduce the chance of a similar event occurring in the future
Arranged for you, at your option, to enroll in a complimentary one-year credit monitoring service through Equifax Complete Premier
Changes made: Augmented security controls to reduce the chance of a similar event occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(51 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Vermont State AGSep 15 · first

Delaware State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 15 (VT), last Sep 22 (DE) — a 7-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://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2023/10/Johnson-and-Johnson-Sample-Individual-Notice-Letter.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 22, 2023
Raw hash: 7289933736840eed8fb2baf9795e692ec01f059c293d590dc71fedf5aa1f3c62

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

Victim entityJohnson and Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 2, 2023

Stated responseNotified IBM

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceattorneygeneral.delaware.gov