MARYLANDMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Green Ridge Behavioral Health

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Severity

Medium

Financial impact

$40K

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 11, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

14,000

Linked

2 records

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Green Ridge Behavioral Health →

Green Ridge Behavioral Health, LLC reported to HHS on 2019-02-11 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 14000 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record, Network Server. The incident involved a ransomware attack encrypting patient electronic health records. HHS OCR reached a settlement requiring a $40,000 payment and a three-year corrective action plan.

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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

Feb 11, 2019

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Enforcement records (1)

HHS OCR enforcementbd_8b2ce008d7e6ee162023-10-30 · +1722dVerified by operator

Name: Green Ridge Behavioral Health
norm: green ridge behavioral health
Domain: greenridgebh.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Green Ridge Behavioral Health
norm: green ridge behavioral health
Domain: greenridgebh.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 14,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Electronic medical recordNetwork server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) with Green Ridge Behavioral Health, LLCOCR enforces the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules

During the incident: Agreed to pay $40,000
Implement a corrective action plan that will be monitored by OCR for three years
Changes made: Conducting a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information
Designing a Risk Management Plan to address and mitigate security risks and vulnerabilities found in the Risk Analysis
Reviewing, and as necessary, developing, or revising its written policies and procedures to comply with the HIPAA Rules
Providing workforce training on HIPAA policies and procedures
Conducting an audit of all third-party arrangements to ensure appropriate business associate agreements are in place, where applicable
Reporting to OCR when workforce members fail to comply with HIPAA
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.

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: Feb 11, 2019
Raw hash: d71b900fc81897badf39e4975fa21431cf62bf7927b3e1f6285e35fa33c50288

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Linked disclosures

Enforcement records (1)

Reporting entityGreen Ridge Behavioral Health

Victim entityGreen Ridge Behavioral Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAgreed to pay $40,000

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

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