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GEORGIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Emory Healthcare

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 21, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

79,930

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Emory Healthcare →4 incidents on file

Emory Healthcare reported to HHS on 2017-02-21 a ransomware attack affecting 79,930 individuals. The breach involved protected health information, including names and dates of birth, located on a network server. In response, Emory Healthcare implemented additional security safeguards and received technical assistance from the Office for Civil Rights.

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

Feb 21, 2017

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

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGFeb 21 · first
HHS OCRFeb 21 · first · this page

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.