PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 14, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

81,487

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC. →2 incidents on file

Lehigh Valley Health Network reported to HHS on 2020-09-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 81,487 individuals. A business associate experienced a ransomware attack affecting ePHI (names, DOB, addresses) located on a Network Server. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media.

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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

Sep 14, 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.Confirmed81,487 affectedView incident

Name: LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.
norm: lehigh valley health network
Domain: lvhn.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.
norm: lehigh valley health network
Domain: lvhn.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 81,487nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
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: Sep 14, 2020
Raw hash: dba223fd2a9cf07805fb2f2b1b675b850a54b2ccccbbfdfb5d5c8ab8431acabc

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Reporting entityLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.

Victim entityLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing