Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)PHILowContained

Synergy Specialists Medical Group

bd_119719b412e703c7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 9, 2016

Filed

Jan 26, 2017

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Synergy Specialists Medical Group →

Synergy Specialists Medical Group notified patients of a phishing incident on Dec 9, 2016 where a fraudulent DocuSign email was sent from their compromised Gmail account. Exposed data included patient names, email addresses, and PHI from emails sent to the office. The company secured the account, hired forensic specialists, and offered one year of Equifax credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Dec 9, 2016

Begins

Dec 9, 2016

Discovered

Jan 26, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_388548696eaf427f2017-01-27 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_c20f97265971c9b02017-01-27 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4fb68aa4d1cf135f2017-01-25 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8ece311d7d7515312017-01-25 · +1dVerified

Name: Synergy Specialists Medical Group
norm: synergy specialists medical

Name: Synergy Specialists Medical Group
norm: synergy specialists medical
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 9, 2016
Breach occurred: Dec 9, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 9, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)PHI
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Sent an email alerting patients not to open the fraudulent email
Secured the Gmail account
Hired forensic IT specialists to determine exactly what happened
Migrating to a new email system
Implemented additional internal administrative steps for all correspondence
Changes made: Migrating to a new email system
Implemented additional internal administrative steps for all correspondence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(48 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Massachusetts State AGJan 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 25 · first

Montana State AG+1d · this page

HHS OCR+2d

California State AG+2d

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/Synergy-Specialists.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 26, 2017
Raw hash: bb2366733f8ece69e18741cd57ccc51b5748cea287844982b68ff99a49048638

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySynergy Specialists Medical Group

Victim entitySynergy Specialists Medical Group

Incidentdiscovered Dec 9, 2016

Stated responseSent an email alerting patients not to open the fraudulent email

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov