NEW YORKSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Human Development Services of Westchester

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 23, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

506

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Human Development Services of Westchester →2 incidents on file

Human Development Services of Westchester, Inc. (NY) reported to HHS on 2024-03-23 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 506 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that exposed PHI including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, posted substitute notice, offered free credit monitoring, and implemented additional safeguards.

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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

Mar 23, 2024

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.Confirmed506 affectedView incident

Name: Human Development Services of Westchester
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Human Development Services of Westchester
norm: human development services of westchester
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 506nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Offered free credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
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.

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: Mar 23, 2024
Raw hash: 543f036baefd3a598364280e6a5b700dbd8a65ac4db41d4ae1b051be03ffbc12

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Reporting entityHuman Development Services of Westchester

Victim entityHuman Development Services of Westchester

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing