KANSASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Valley Hope

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 18, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

70,799

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Valley Hope →2 incidents on file

Valley Hope Association reported to HHS on 2019-01-18 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 70,799 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of an email phishing scheme exposing ePHI including names, DOB, SSN, driver's license, addresses, medications, and treatment info. The CE implemented security safeguards and retrained staff.

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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

Jan 18, 2019

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_53a502a1bd5d05a62019-01-18Verified
Montana State AGbd_c0c256366a0db1672019-01-18Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_4c2f372ddf9720d92019-01-24 · +6dVerified

Name: Valley Hope
norm: valley hope
Domain: valleyhope.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Valley Hope
norm: valley hope
Domain: valleyhope.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 70,799nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
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: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained its workforce members on email security
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained its workforce members on email security
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 18 · first

Montana State AGJan 18 · first

HHS OCRJan 18 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Jan 18 (MA), last Jan 24 (NH) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Jan 18, 2019
Raw hash: 278305590e5c0c592bf71a6f0df851583b2cc5077424d864cafc3aa9c6af14e6

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityValley Hope

Victim entityValley Hope

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing