NCSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.
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Full breach record for Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc. →Catawba Valley Medical Center (NC) reported to HHS on 2018-10-12 a Hacking/IT Incident (phishing) affecting 20,000 individuals (22,952 per investigation). In August 2018, an unauthorized person accessed email accounts of three employees via phishing. PHI compromised included demographic and health insurance information. Breached information located on Email. Remediation included MFA, password resets, enhanced monitoring, staff training, and a suspicious-email reporting plugin. OCR provided technical assistance and obtained corrective-action assurances.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified10 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_9fde5953ab47d464Montana State AGfiled 2018-10-23(11d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- 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
- Oct 12, 2018
- Raw hash
- 7276d08f0e7a8e2922d1d5b01ea355ca98f0226f10877d773ee2f3289d9ec8b2
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.norm: catawba valley medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.norm: catawba valley medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 1, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 20,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR provided technical assistance related to the HIPAA Security Rule and phishing attacks.OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(72 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Aug 1, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.