MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

St. Louis Children's Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 9, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

643

Confidence

97%

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St. Louis Children's Hospital (MO) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-03-09 that employees emailed PHI in an unsecure manner, affecting 643 individuals. Breached information was located in Email. PHI exposed included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Medicaid numbers, medications prescribed, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, established a call center, implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards, and retrained staff on HIPAA Rules and secure email practices. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were 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

Mar 9, 2017

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.Confirmed643 affectedView incident

Name: St. Louis Children's Hospital
norm: st louis children s hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: St. Louis Children's Hospital
norm: st louis children s hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 643nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Established a call center for affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on HIPAA Rules and secure email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on HIPAA Rules and secure email usage
OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
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: Mar 9, 2017
Raw hash: a79b98cf27c649a8be6f95d287cb92573777d8adba2d6d2438a8babe0642add0

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Reporting entitySt. Louis Children's Hospital

Victim entitySt. Louis Children's Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing