PhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumResolved

Elk Ridge Dentistry

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 31, 2020

Filed

Mar 2, 2020

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Elk Ridge Dentistry →

Elk Ridge Dentistry notified Montana patients of a data breach involving the theft of a backup hard drive containing patient PII and PHI. Discovered Jan 31, 2020. Data included names, DOBs, SSNs, and healthcare info. Company reported to law enforcement, investigated, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Jan 31, 2020

Discovered

Mar 2, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_90fb25f95bdb225d2020-03-02Verified
Indiana State AGbd_e2d9723217666fc92020-03-02Verified

Name: Elk Ridge Dentistry
norm: elk ridge dentistry

Name: Elk Ridge Dentistry
norm: elk ridge dentistry
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jan 31, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 2, 2020
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported incident to law enforcement

During the incident: Immediately reported this incident to law enforcement
Conducted an investigation to determine which patients may have had information on the hard drive
Offering identity theft protection services through ID Experts
Changes made: Ensuring all employees are aware of the requirement to protect patient information
Increasing hardware security protocols
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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HHS OCRMar 2 · first

Indiana State AGMar 2 · first

Montana State AGMar 2 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-71.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 2, 2020
Raw hash: ea3859d66e1781924975ecc696d508ca3277804bc9043e69f5a0ea4af49bdca7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityElk Ridge Dentistry

Victim entityElk Ridge Dentistry

Incidentdiscovered Jan 31, 2020

Stated responseImmediately reported this incident to law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov