MisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Asante Health System

bd_bb072ad7a3f7e531 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 13, 2016

Filed

Sep 9, 2016

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Asante Health System →2 incidents on file

Asante Health System notified patients that an employee inappropriately accessed electronic patient records between August 2014 and July 2016. Affected data included PHI (diagnoses, medications, lab results) and basic identity info (name, DOB, MRN). No SSN or financial data was involved. The investigation is complete, and the employee was disciplined.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Incident timeline

undetected · 695 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 58 days

Aug 18, 2014

Begins

Jul 13, 2016

Discovered

Sep 9, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: Asante Health System
norm: asante health system
Domain: asante.org

Name: Asante Health System
norm: asante health system
Domain: asante.org
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jul 13, 2016
Breach occurred: Aug 18, 2014 – Jul 21, 2016
Undetected for: 695 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2016
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Began an investigation related to this incident and specific employee
Applied our employment policies and processes appropriately
Conducted a final audit of the employee’s actions
Changes made: Implementing mandatory re-education for workforce members on appropriate access to protected health information
Will continue to audit employee access to patient information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Asante-Health-System.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 9, 2016
Raw hash: 3fa997b2d614960ead73efe561dbb671d539575218ce8e86315ca9e7343f1b69

Reporting entityAsante Health System

Victim entityAsante Health System

Incidentdiscovered Jul 13, 2016

Stated responseBegan an investigation related to this incident and specific employee

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov