TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 29, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

37,774

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC. →

Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC. reported to HHS on 2023-09-29 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 37,774 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the subject of an email phishing attack compromising PHI including names, addresses, DOB, and treatment info. Tenet Healthcare notified HHS and individuals.

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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

Sep 29, 2023

Filed

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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.Confirmed37,774 affectedView incident

Name: Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC.
norm: georgia northside ear, nose, and throat
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Georgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC.
norm: georgia northside ear nose and throat
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 37,774nationwide
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
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data
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: Sep 29, 2023
Raw hash: 9ddd590808dfbdaddec432752acb3e910798aae9eb5162324d7b55de7690e7ad

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Reporting entityGeorgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC.

Victim entityGeorgia Northside Ear, Nose, and Throat, LLC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing