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.

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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

Nov 12, 2013

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.Confirmed7,606 affectedView incident

Name: Hospice of the Chesapeake, Inc.
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Name: Hospice of the Chesapeake, Inc.
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Industry: Healthcare Provider
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,606nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; OCR obtained assurances regarding periodic risk assessments

During the incident: Breach notification to affected individuals, media, and HHS
Substitute notice posted on website
Changes made: Hired independent computer forensics firm to investigate
Applied sanctions and terminated responsible employee
Periodic risk assessments of ePHI vulnerabilities
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: Nov 12, 2013
Raw hash: 9e3afbd76c9999790ffde471185254f948bbb41e31334bf5d362a6f1a7e446c1

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Reporting entityHospice of the Chesapeake, Inc.

Victim entityHospice of the Chesapeake, Inc.

IncidentInsider

Stated responseBreach notification to affected individuals, media, and HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing