MAINESocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Sweetser

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 13, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

22,000

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Sweetser →3 incidents on file

Sweetser, a healthcare provider in Maine, reported to HHS on 2019-09-13 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 22,000 individuals. Several employees were victims of a phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, SSNs, claims data, medical conditions, and health insurance information. Breached information located in Email.

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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

Sep 13, 2019

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed22,000 affectedView incident

Name: Sweetser
norm: sweetser
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sweetser
norm: sweetser
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 22,000nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the CE and obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided complimentary identity protection and credit monitoring services
Changes made: Implemented additional policies and procedures to enhance their IT security infrastructure
Provided additional security awareness training to its employees
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: Sep 13, 2019
Raw hash: 0f740866c6b25d3a1a0e9450c75fb04fd8c861b700688bf0336bd157251e76ea

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Reporting entitySweetser

Victim entitySweetser

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing