Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Citizens Memorial Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 9, 2017

Filed

Feb 20, 2017

To disclose

11 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Citizens Memorial Hospital →

Citizens Memorial Hospital District and Citizens Memorial Healthcare Foundation notified affected individuals of a spear-phishing incident on February 9, 2017. An employee clicked a malicious link and provided W-2 data (names, SSNs, earnings) to an attacker who accessed the encrypted attachment. The FBI and IRS were notified, and affected individuals were offered two years of Experian ProtectMyID.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Feb 8, 2017

Begins

Feb 9, 2017

Discovered

Feb 20, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Citizens Memorial Hospital
norm: citizens memorial hospital

Name: Citizens Memorial Hospital
norm: citizens memorial hospital
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Feb 9, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 8, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 15, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBINotified the IRSNotified state taxing authorities
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the FBI, the IRS, and state taxing authorities of the incident
Offering a complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Aggressively analyzing where process changes are needed and will take the appropriate actions
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Citizens-Memorial.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 20, 2017
Raw hash: 90d63aee0120549446c7b934ba51e1cec256ff15e8c545a7881aa64f3418bbd3

Reporting entityCitizens Memorial Hospital

Victim entityCitizens Memorial Hospital

Incidentdiscovered Feb 9, 2017

Stated responseNotified the FBI, the IRS, and state taxing authorities of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov