HackingHealthcareHealthcareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Watsonville Community Hospital

bd_baf908a2789a7096 · schema v1 · pii pii-v2

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 29, 2024

Filed

Oct 15, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

9 records

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Watsonville Community Hospital →2 incidents on file

Watsonville Community Hospital notified Nebraska AG of unauthorized network access between Nov 25-30, 2024, discovered Nov 29, 2024. Impact: 2 Nebraska residents (names, addresses, SSNs). Response: FBI notified, systems isolated, 24mo credit monitoring via IDX provided. Notice sent Dec 30, 2024, supplemented Oct 15, 2025. Investigation ongoing.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

Nov 25, 2024

Begins

Nov 29, 2024

Discovered

Oct 15, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 9 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitetermitebd_b9adf15399e0394d2024-12-05 · +313dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_64d26d9110233fee2025-10-15Verified by operator
Massachusetts State AGbd_49347cffef2506702025-10-16 · +1dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_fd51d9e52c7b09b22025-10-16 · +1dVerified by operator
Maine State AGbd_66074d82561ed7252025-10-17 · +2dVerified by operator

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Illinois State AGbd_1be423ffa61832652025-11-01 · +17dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_af426c2c00d877712026-05-20 · +217dVerified by operator
HHS OCRbd_5e3254a29f6492372024-12-31 · +288dVerified

Name: Watsonville Community Hospital
norm: watsonville community hospital
Domain: watsonvillehospital.com

Name: Watsonville Community Hospital
norm: watsonville community hospital
Domain: watsonvillehospital.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Nov 29, 2024
Breach occurred: Nov 25, 2024 – Nov 30, 2024
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 30, 2024
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: provided preliminary notice to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”)issued supplemental notice to HHSprovided written notice of this incident to relevant state and federal regulators
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Took portions of its network offline
Isolated the affected systems
Began an investigation into the activity
Performed a comprehensive and time-intensive third-party review of the impacted files
Undertook a detailed internal review of its records to identify contact information
Notified federal law enforcement regarding the event
Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Providing access to credit monitoring services for twenty-four (24) months through IDX
Providing impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Providing written notice of this incident to relevant state and federal regulators
Providing notice to the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards and training to its employees
Reviewed and enhanced our technical, administrative, and physical safeguards, policies, and procedures to further secure the information on our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

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HHS OCRDec 31 · first

Montana State AG+288d

Nebraska State AG+288d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+289d

California State AG+289d

Maine State AG+290d

Illinois State AG+305d

New Hampshire State AG+505d

Pattern: first filing Dec 31 (CA), last May 20 (NH) — a 505-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://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/7c88ec54-8a02-487d-bdbc-f0523a2879b0.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 15, 2025
Raw hash: 34414e1a8fa190631d18e7f207d3bc674768363554d803014205ba4356a2c4c4

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWatsonville Community Hospital

Victim entityWatsonville Community Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Nov 29, 2024

Stated responseTook portions of its network offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov