Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Regulatory clocksHIPAA✓ HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline
HHS OCRConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
4,564
Data types
3
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
Jurisdictions
1
NC
Linked filings
2
all HHS OCR
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Children's Hope Alliance reported to HHS on 2019-12-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4564 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The covered entity was a victim of an email phishing incident. The case is closed.
Children's Hope Alliance reported to HHS on 2020-01-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,564 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The breach involved a phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, driver's license numbers, SSNs, clinical, and financial information. The responsible employee was sanctioned and safeguards implemented.
Affected (this filing): 4,564
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.