MINNESOTASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)AuthenticationHighResolved

Douglas County Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 3, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

49,859

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Douglas County Hospital →

Douglas County Hospital dba Alomere Health (MN) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-01-03 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 49,859 individuals. An employee fell victim to an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, addresses, drivers' license numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, lab results, diagnoses, and health insurance information. No business associate was involved. OCR obtained corrective action assurances; Alomere retrained staff and implemented additional safeguards. Breached information located on Email.

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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

Jan 3, 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.Confirmed49,859 affectedView incident

Name: Douglas County Hospital
norm: douglas county hospital
Domain: alomerehealth.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Douglas County Hospital
norm: douglas county hospital
Domain: alomerehealth.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Douglas County Hospitaldba oflegal entity
Alomere Healthdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 49,859nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Authentication
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: HHS OCR — corrective action assurances obtained
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media
Provided substitute notice
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Staff retraining on phishing identification
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: Jan 3, 2020
Raw hash: 0093b9b6d7e5420f80406677ff6766e251b3f7f59d8debb92339382e89781798

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Reporting entityDouglas County Hospital

Victim entityDouglas County Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing