CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Institute on Aging

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 20, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

3,907

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Institute on Aging →

Institute on Aging reported to HHS on 2018-07-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3907 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Phishing attacks compromised workforce email accounts containing patient PHI (demographic, clinical, payment). CE hired forensic investigators, deployed advanced threat protection, retrained staff, and provided identity protection services.

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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

Jul 20, 2018

Filed

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

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_0d69c6dea7015a772018-07-20Verified

Name: Institute on Aging
norm: institute on aging
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Institute on Aging
norm: institute on aging
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,907nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHSprovided OCR with additional documentation including its HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices Policy
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Hired a security company to perform forensic investigation of the incident
Added an advanced threat protection tool to prevent future occurrences of similar incidents
Retrained workforce members
Provided individuals with identity protection services
Changes made: Added an advanced threat protection tool to prevent future occurrences of similar incidents
Retrained workforce members
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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California State AGJul 20 · first

HHS OCRJul 20 · first · this page

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: Jul 20, 2018
Raw hash: c9313e06e80818b32c28e05c4d4e0150323542d246fa49bb7aaff7261d9d6715

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityInstitute on Aging

Victim entityInstitute on Aging

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseHired a security company to perform forensic investigation of the incident

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing