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OHIOMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Ashtabula County Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

May 8, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

3,683

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Ashtabula County Medical Center →

Ashtabula County Medical Center (OH) reported to HHS on 2020-05-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,683 individuals. An employee posted PHI — including names, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information — to a public website. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice, offered credit monitoring, sanctioned the employee, and revised its policies. OCR provided technical assistance on the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Breached information was located on a Network Server.

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

May 8, 2020

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.Confirmed3,683 affectedView incident

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.