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MARYLANDSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountCriticalResolved

The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 25, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

125,291

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics →2 incidents on file

The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics (MD) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-03-25 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 125,291 individuals. Multiple employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that exposed PHI including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers' license numbers, passport numbers, diagnoses, and financial and other treatment information. Breached information located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, implemented additional safeguards, and retrained staff on identifying fraudulent emails. No business associate was involved.

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

Mar 25, 2021

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
Montana State AG+83d
HHS OCR+83d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 25 (MD) — a 83-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.