ILLINOISSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)HighContained

HOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 31, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

16,167

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for HOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM →14 incidents on file

Hospital Sisters Health System reported to HHS on 2020-01-31 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 16,167 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were subjects of an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, SSNs, addresses, DOB, diagnoses, and medications. Response included credit monitoring, security safeguards, and staff retraining.

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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 31, 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.Confirmed16,167 affectedView incident

Name: HOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM
norm: hospital sisters health system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: HOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM
norm: hospital sisters health system
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16,167nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (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: The CE notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained 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: Jan 31, 2020
Raw hash: 7fefea0b1ab669f2bbd59d76f40dd8f81d5622e7f2f93e54438e13b27aa6cc78

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Reporting entityHOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM

Victim entityHOSPITAL SISTERS HEALTH SYSTEM

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided complimentary credit monitoring services

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing