CALIFORNIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Center for Autism and Related Disorders

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 16, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,440

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Center for Autism and Related Disorders →3 incidents on file

Center for Autism and Related Disorders reported to HHS on 2020-10-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1440 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, and health insurance information. The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, and strengthened security safeguards.

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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

Oct 16, 2020

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_cfb16c4044333d742020-10-15 · +1dVerified

Name: Center for Autism and Related Disorders
norm: center for autism and related disorders
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Center for Autism and Related Disorders
norm: center for autism and related disorders
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,440nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
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 Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Strengthened administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email
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 AGOct 15 · first

HHS OCR+1d · 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: Oct 16, 2020
Raw hash: c7364696663198cc6d88d3a132f8b27a0725aab94c0d10809d4ab0e4819c8b57

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCenter for Autism and Related Disorders

Victim entityCenter for Autism and Related Disorders

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing