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LOUISIANAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalContained

Lake Charles Memorial Health System

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 22, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

269,752

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Lake Charles Memorial Health System →2 incidents on file

Southwest Louisiana Health Care System, Inc. d/b/a Lake Charles Memorial Health System reported to HHS on 2022-12-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 269,752 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved a ransomware attack encrypting PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSNs, and financial info. The entity provided credit monitoring and implemented additional 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

Dec 22, 2022

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.Confirmed269,752 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.