NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Children's Hope Alliance

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 14, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

4,564

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Children's Hope Alliance →3 incidents on file

Children's Hope Alliance reported to HHS on 2020-01-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,564 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The breach involved a phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, driver's license numbers, SSNs, clinical, and financial information. The responsible employee was sanctioned and safeguards implemented.

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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

Jan 14, 2020

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

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_8d8d551f1df639572019-12-03 · +42dCandidate

Name: Children's Hope Alliance
norm: children s hope alliance
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Children's Hope Alliance
norm: children s hope alliance
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,564nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the Breach Notification Rule
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Sanctioned the responsible employee
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRDec 3 · first

HHS OCR+42d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 3 (NC), last Jan 14 (NC) — a 42-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Jan 14, 2020
Raw hash: 0b64863bfa2690200f27011bbadbc36648094675a7e1fc0f99ff651c822678d6

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChildren's Hope Alliance

Victim entityChildren's Hope Alliance

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the responsible employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing