ARKANSASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Baptist Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 7, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

3,453

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Baptist Health →5 incidents on file

Baptist Health (AR) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-05-07 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,453 individuals. A physician stored patient PHI — including names, dates of birth, and treatment information — on a cloud-based file-sharing application without a Business Associate contract. Breached information was located on a Network Server/cloud storage. CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media; subsequently improved safeguards, updated policies, and trained EHR users. OCR obtained corrective-action assurances.

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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

May 7, 2018

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,453 affectedView incident

Name: Baptist Health
norm: baptist health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Baptist Health
norm: baptist health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,453nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — breach notification submitted; OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Improved safeguards
Updated policies and procedures
Trained users of its electronic health record system on better practices to protect PHI
Changes made: Business Associate agreement process reviewed
Enhanced cloud storage usage policies
User training on PHI protection in EHR systems
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: May 7, 2018
Raw hash: a1206f6641c2761072d2d3c935e412445c73c0b6480ae6bf32dfb1687e682943

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Reporting entityBaptist Health

Victim entityBaptist Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing