PhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

CORE Health

bd_b67c69bd40f23370 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 30, 2022

Filed

Oct 5, 2022

To disclose

5 days

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for CORE Health →

CORE Health, a Washington-based community mental health provider, notified the WA Attorney General on Oct 4, 2022, of a breach occurring Sept 29, 2022. A staff member's car was broken into, stealing a laptop and files containing PHI and PII (SSN, name, DOB, address) of 4 individuals. CORE Health contained the threat, filed a police report, and notified HHS OCR.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d5 days discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 5 days

Sep 29, 2022

Begins

Sep 30, 2022

Discovered

Oct 5, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

Name: CORE Health
norm: core health

Name: CORE Health
norm: core health
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Sep 30, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 29, 2022
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 4, 2022
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Filed a report with the secretary of Health and Human ServicesNotification provided to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights

During the incident: Contained the threat by disabling all unauthorized access to our network via the laptop
Commenced a prompt and thorough investigation
Filed a police report
Filed a report with the secretary of Health and Human Services
Changes made: Made one year of identity theft protection available through a service provider
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 days(5 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA15539.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 5, 2022
Raw hash: e7f07fe4d2c54e72b616f89316d8f0d10f07672a8cd7f234c5436f880200de70

Reporting entityCORE Health

Victim entityCORE Health

Incidentdiscovered Sep 30, 2022

Stated responseContained the threat by disabling all unauthorized access to our network via the laptop

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com