COLORADOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Children's Hospital Colorado

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Severity

Medium

Financial impact

$548K

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 27, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

2,553

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Children's Hospital Colorado →

Children's Hospital Colorado reported to HHS OCR on 2020-07-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2,553 individuals, with breached information located in Email accounts. OCR investigated two related phishing incidents (2017 and 2020): one compromising an email account (3,370 individuals' PHI) due to disabled MFA, and another where workforce members granted unknown third parties access to three email accounts (10,840 individuals' PHI). OCR found HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule violations. A civil money penalty of $548,265 was imposed in 2024.

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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

Jul 27, 2020

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 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Illinois State AGbd_98e5159e8e96818b2020-01-01 · +208dVerified by operator
Illinois State AGbd_df63f008f995cb7f2020-01-01 · +208dVerified by operator
HHS OCRbd_5a374454ce8015782017-09-08 · +1053dVerified by operator
HHS OCR enforcementbd_daf381098a786d942024-12-05 · +1592dVerified by operator

Name: Children's Hospital Colorado
norm: children s hospital colorado
Domain: childrenscolorado.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Children's Hospital Colorado
norm: children s hospital colorado
Domain: childrenscolorado.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,553nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation concluded with civil money penalty of $548,265 (Notice of Final Determination, June 2024)
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Children's Hospital Colorado waived right to a hearing and did not contest OCR's findings
Changes made: Implement multi-factor authentication on email accounts
Conduct compliant risk analysis for ePHI systems
Train workforce members on HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements
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 · 5 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRSep 8 · first

Illinois State AG+845d

HHS OCR+1053d · this page

HHS OCR enforcement+2645d

Pattern: first filing Sep 8 (CO), last Dec 5 — a 2645-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: Jul 27, 2020
Raw hash: b30a6501dc3bcfb36f5ab857d9484359f2174c711be6c7f5bcff13304824a0c4

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChildren's Hospital Colorado

Victim entityChildren's Hospital Colorado

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseChildren's Hospital Colorado waived right to a hearing and did not contest OCR's findings

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing