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MARYLANDMisuseHealthcareHealthcareEmail MisuseData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Hospice of the Chesapeake, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 12, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

7,606

Confidence

94%
Full breach record for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Inc. →

An employee of Hospice of the Chesapeake, contrary to CE policy, emailed spreadsheets containing ePHI of 7,035 patients to a personal email account; a third party may have viewed them. A subsequent forensic investigation found an additional spreadsheet with PHI of 571 more patients in the employee's personal email account, bringing the total to 7,606. PHI exposed included names, addresses, conditions, and diagnoses. The CE notified affected individuals, the media, and HHS, posted substitute notice, sanctioned and terminated the employee, and provided assurances to OCR of periodic risk assessments.

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

Nov 12, 2013

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7,606 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.