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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed4 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

Catawba Valley Medical Center, Inc. — July 2018 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Oct 12, 2018 Oct 23, 2018. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

20,000

First → last filing

Oct 12, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_c764ca4753704387 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. The filings describe social engineering. Intrusion Jul 1, 2018–Aug 31, 2018, discovered Aug 1, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 72 days later. 20,000 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Health (basic), Identity (basic), and 1 more. Notifications rolled out on a 11-day schedule across 4 filings beginning Oct 12, 2018. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
72days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
23days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
11days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Jul 1, 2018breach begins
Aug 1, 2018discovered · members disagree
notification delay · 72 days
Oct 12, 2018first filing
Oct 23, 2018most recent filing

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. OCT 12HHS OCRHHS OCR noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 20,000day 0
  2. OCT 22NH AGNH AG notice3 NH residents+10d
  3. OCT 23MT AGMT AG notice1 MT residents+11d
  4. OCT 23MA AGMA AG noticemost recent · 3 MA residents+11d
  5. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jul 1, 2018Aug 31, 2018
NH AG
Discovered
Aug 1, 2018HHS OCRAug 24, 2018NH AG + MT AGfilings disagree on discovery
Data types
Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID
HHS OCR + NH AG + MT AG +1
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
HHS OCR

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Count reconciliation

per-state reported counts

Nationwide (stated in a filing)

20,000

Sum of filed state slices

7· 0.0% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US20,000
NH3
MA3
MT1

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.

Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing4 members

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

Merge provenance

Method
deterministic
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Audit
Every link edge records its method, confidence and model + prompt versions (100% is the strongest edge).

Merges are reversible — a wrong link can be detached with its audit trail intact. How merging works.

Filing velocity

Spread

11 days

Cadence

~1 / 3.7d

vs. multi-state median

1.2× slower

About this clustering

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