MisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseDelayed DiscoveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumResolved

Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 5, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital →

Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital notified patients that a former employee improperly accessed medical records between August 2016 and October 2017. Access involved demographic and clinical data. Notification was delayed until August 2021 per law enforcement instructions. Remediation included security monitoring, staff retraining, and credit monitoring offers.

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Incident timeline

Aug 23, 2016

Begins

Aug 5, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_5977b3f2a014ea5b2021-08-06 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_cd77b3ae72f20ee12021-08-03 · +2dVerified

Name: Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital
norm: long island jewish forest hills hospital

Name: Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital
norm: long island jewish forest hills hospital
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Aug 23, 2016 – Oct 31, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 6, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Cooperated with law enforcement investigationDelayed notifying patients per law enforcement instructions until August 5, 2021
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Cooperated fully with the investigation
Confirmed that the former employee was no longer employed
Implemented additional security tools to monitor access to medical record applications
Conducted targeted re-training of front-line staff
Compliance Department conducts audits of medical record access
Arranged Experian IdentityWorks protect your identity for one year at no cost
Changes made: Implemented additional security tools to monitor access to medical record applications
Conducted targeted re-training of front-line staff
Compliance Department conducts audits of medical record access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGAug 3 · first

Montana State AG+2d · this page

HHS OCR+3d

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/notificationLetter-20.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 5, 2021
Raw hash: bc008e35451fcaf386f8e6d64a8bc9ed449d43cb924e565c0f3374872ef46a86

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLong Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital

Victim entityLong Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital

IncidentInsider

Stated responseCooperated fully with the investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov