NEW YORKMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

NYC Health + Hospitals

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 22, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

3,000

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for NYC Health + Hospitals →8 incidents on file

NYC Health + Hospitals reported to HHS on 2023-12-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3000 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer, Paper/Films. An employee allowed a volunteer to view PHI (names, DOB, lab results). The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, sanctioned the employee, and retrained staff.

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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

Dec 22, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_b76115afebb677522024-01-05 · +14dVerified

Name: NYC Health + Hospitals
norm: nyc health hospitals
Domain: nychealthandhospitals.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: NYC Health + Hospitals
norm: nyc health hospitals
Domain: nychealthandhospitals.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computerPaper / films
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
Notified the affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Sanctioned the employee involved in the breach
Retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI
Changes made: Retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRDec 22 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+14d

Pattern: first filing Dec 22 (NY), last Jan 5 (NH) — a 14-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://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: Dec 22, 2023
Raw hash: 5cf1d5761569bc852fadfb74079391dd0dfc865a42f5fa3593935b85417ecdb5

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNYC Health + Hospitals

Victim entityNYC Health + Hospitals

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing