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WEST VIRGINIAHackingHealthcareRetail & ConsumerHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Discount Emporium, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 14, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

2,500

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Discount Emporium, Inc. →

Discount Emporium, Inc. d/b/a Drug Emporium (a pharmacy chain in WV) reported to HHS on 2023-12-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2,500 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server and included names and medications (PHI). A business associate was present. Following the breach, the CE shuttered all of its pharmacies and the investigation was closed.

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 14, 2023

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.Confirmed2,500 affectedView incident

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.