WEST VIRGINIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancialHighContained

CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 28, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

54,000

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →2 incidents on file

Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-03-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 54,000 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of a phishing attack exposing PHI including names, DOB, MRNs, SSNs, and financial info. CE provided credit monitoring and implemented technical 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 28, 2022

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.Confirmed54,000 affectedView incident

Name: CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: charleston area medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: charleston area medical center
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 54,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
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 28, 2022
Raw hash: bf6d89ece19cc79d2f70b78e9e776506b416928af6b583fe155cb8c111c67c79

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Reporting entityCHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Victim entityCHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided complimentary credit monitoring services

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing