HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

Virginia Gay Hospital

bd_d22f7c95e04d8475 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 18, 2019

Filed

Aug 26, 2019

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Virginia Gay Hospital →

Virginia Gay Hospital notified NH AG of a June 18, 2019 incident where an email account was accessed by an unknown third party. 3 NH residents affected. Data included names, DOBs, SSNs, and medical info. Hospital engaged forensic experts, notified patients, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Jun 18, 2019

Discovered

Aug 26, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_3e7150284a7915b42019-08-16 · +10dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_647148e276d0396e2019-08-16 · +10dVerified
HHS OCRbd_681c428c6090f6842019-08-16 · +10dVerified

Name: Virginia Gay Hospital
norm: virginia gay hospital

Name: Virginia Gay Hospital
norm: virginia gay hospital
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jun 18, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 16, 2019
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged computer forensic experts to help investigate
Sending potentially impacted individuals a letter via first class mail
Offering 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services
Changes made: Increased employee awareness
Tightened security rules on access
Updated firewall and email applications
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGAug 16 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 16 · first

HHS OCRAug 16 · first

New Hampshire State AG+10d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 16 (MT), last Aug 26 (NH) — a 10-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/virginia-gay-hospital-20190826.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 26, 2019
Raw hash: f85e1e6ccbfb384b045c6c8ca3d3bddf0cc25f18661df03ce34fde1bb0ff88a7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVirginia Gay Hospital

Victim entityVirginia Gay Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Jun 18, 2019

Stated responseEngaged computer forensic experts to help investigate

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov