HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

BEACON HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 25, 2015

Filed

Jun 2, 2015

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

343state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for BEACON HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. →8 incidents on file

Beacon Health System notified patients of a cyber attack where unauthorized access to employee email boxes occurred between November 2013 and January 2015. The breach potentially exposed PHI including names, SSNs, DOBs, driver's licenses, and medical records. Beacon notified the FBI and HHS, increased security measures, and offered 12 months of identity protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 509 days

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 69 days

Nov 1, 2013

Begins

Mar 25, 2015

Discovered

Jun 2, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

2 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

Massachusetts State AGbd_d5e1c3781bd302922015-06-02Verified
California State AGbd_f73374c11c2eadaa2015-05-29 · +4dVerified
HHS OCRbd_c5d1fc136fbc569c2015-05-22 · +11dVerified

Name: BEACON HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.
norm: beacon health system
Domain: beaconhealthsystem.org

Name: BEACON HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.
norm: beacon health system
Domain: beaconhealthsystem.org
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 25, 2015
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2013 – Jan 26, 2015
Undetected for: 509 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 22, 2015
Affected individuals: 343state-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 the Department of Health and Human Servicesnotified state regulators
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Consulting with the FBI
Notified the Department of Health and Human Services and state regulators
Putting additional cyber security protections in place
Offering to provide identity protection to you for 12 months at no cost through Experian
Changes made: Security measures have been increased
Implementing additional policies and techniques to prevent this from happening again
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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HHS OCRMay 22 · first

California State AG+7d

Massachusetts State AG+11d

South Carolina State AG+11d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 22 (IN), last Jun 2 (SC) — a 11-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2015/BeaconHealthSystem.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 2, 2015
Raw hash: 385a341b7d5486103ebfe20f0144b287040ad1398050ee2f385fec28c71be8e9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBEACON HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

Victim entityBEACON HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 25, 2015

Stated responseConsulting with the FBI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov