KENTUCKYHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 17, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

2,282

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc. dba Bluegrass Care Navigators reported to HHS on 2024-04-17 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2282 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 2,282 individuals, including demographic and clinical information.

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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

Apr 17, 2024

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.Confirmed2,282 affectedView incident

Name: Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc.
norm: hospice of the bluegrass
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc.
norm: hospice of the bluegrass
Also named: Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Bluegrass Care Navigatorsdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,282nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect patient PHI
Retrained its workforce member on email security precautions
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect patient PHI
Retrained its workforce member on email security precautions
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: Apr 17, 2024
Raw hash: 777a5635950e86c27f946ad1bd1f35a32a5151b9cf3bda772fe7816b61b62c07

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Reporting entityHospice of the Bluegrass, Inc.

Victim entityHospice of the Bluegrass, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing