GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 12, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

41,692

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia →

Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia reported to HHS on 2022-01-12 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 41,692 individuals. An employee impermissibly accessed and downloaded PHI to a USB drive from a Desktop Computer. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, provided credit monitoring, and retrained staff on HIPAA Rules.

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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 12, 2022

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Illinois State AGbd_61504a18cd34415a2022-01-01 · +11dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_623ea1310b20a1bb2022-01-25 · +13dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_8e9f7a0885a1f2952022-01-25 · +13dCandidate

Name: Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia
norm: hospital authority of valdosta and lowndes county georgia
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia
norm: hospital authority of valdosta and lowndes county georgia
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 41,692nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical MediumT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Retrained all staff on HIPAA Rules
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards
Implemented additional physical safeguards
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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

HHS OCR+11d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+24d

Oregon State AG+24d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 25 (OR) — a 24-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 12, 2022
Raw hash: 6d252bfa9fd035756a729029db84f2be97a82dd8d46018312c5dc9df0bfad905

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia

Victim entityHospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing