NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 1, 2018

Filed

Oct 12, 2018

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

20,000

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

97%

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.

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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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 72 days

Aug 1, 2018

Discovered

Oct 12, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_6f1a70eb016259742018-10-22 · +10dVerified
Montana State AGbd_9fde5953ab47d4642018-10-23 · +11dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c0189116e82999fb2018-10-23 · +11dVerified

Name: Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.
norm: catawba valley medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.
norm: catawba valley medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Aug 1, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,000nationwide
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 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

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Notice posted on the entity's website
Changes made: Changed passwords on affected accounts
Set up additional system activity monitoring
Implemented multifactor authentication requirement
Provided additional phishing-awareness training to staff
Activated software plugin for reporting suspicious emails to service desk
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Aug 1, 2018 → 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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HHS OCROct 12 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+10d

Montana State AG+11d

Massachusetts State AG+11d

Pattern: first filing Oct 12 (NC), last Oct 23 (MA) — a 11-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: Oct 12, 2018
Raw hash: 7276d08f0e7a8e2922d1d5b01ea355ca98f0226f10877d773ee2f3289d9ec8b2

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCatawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.

Victim entityCatawba Valley Medical Center, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 1, 2018

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing