NEW YORKSocial EngineeringHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Broome County, New York

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 31, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

7,048

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Broome County, New York →2 incidents on file

Broome County, New York reported to HHS on 2019-05-31 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 7,048 individuals. Multiple employees were victims of a phishing attack that compromised ePHI stored in email. Exposed data included names, Social Security numbers, financial information, dates of birth, medical record numbers, patient IDs, diagnoses, treatment information, and health insurance/claims data. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, provided credit monitoring, strengthened technical safeguards, and retrained staff on email security. No business associate was involved.

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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 31, 2019

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.Confirmed7,048 affectedView incident

Name: Broome County, New York
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Broome County, New York
norm: broome county new york
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,048nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected individuals
Changes made: Strengthened technical and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
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 31, 2019
Raw hash: 968c3086eacf6e5987d6e42ab227978378f260601170b5cf7f579efcb2b18f54

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Reporting entityBroome County, New York

Victim entityBroome County, New York

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing