DCAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMINORHighResolved
Children's National Medical Center
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Full breach record for Children's National Medical Center →Children's National Medical Center (DC) reported to HHS on 2016-04-25 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,107 individuals. A former business associate, Ascend Health System, misconfigured an FTP site, potentially exposing transcription documents via the internet. Breached PHI included children's names, dates of birth, medications, and physicians' names. The breach was discovered in December 2015; the CE had ceased business with the BA on June 23, 2014. Notification was provided to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Dec 1, 2015 → Notified Apr 25, 2016146d ✗ HIPAA 60-day late21 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,107 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Apr 25, 2016
- Raw hash
- 874c5b1b40c203f4e6f0df91ec482e2a8b212dc4a50cfc13e39a0ea5863240ad
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Children's National Medical Centernorm: children s national medical center
- Domain
- childrensnational.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Children's National Medical Centernorm: children s national medical center
- Domain
- childrensnational.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 1, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 25, 2016
- Affected individuals
- 4,107
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMINOR
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration· Ascend Health System
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained copies of notification letters and BA agreement; CE provided assurances of corrective actions implemented.
- Third party
- via Ascend Health System
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 21 weeks(146 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day late · 146dHHS notified · 146d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Dec 1, 2015→ Notified: Apr 25, 2016146d 60 days HIPAA 60-day late HIPAA Discovered: Dec 1, 2015→ Notified: Apr 25, 2016146d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.