NJAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Gentle Dentistry Group PC
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Full breach record for Gentle Dentistry Group PC →Gentle Dentistry Group PC (NJ) reported to HHS on 2018-09-26 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 831 individuals. A workforce member emailed a product promotion to 831 patients, inadvertently disclosing recipients' email addresses to each other via a mass email. Breached information located in Email. The CE updated email practices, conducted refresher training, sanctioned the responsible employee, and was directed to perform a risk analysis. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed831 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 26, 2018
- Raw hash
- 59a1e5360d846e95225579eeba348d5e3fc1bffbe0fe7c5b5e16b584d6912914
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Gentle Dentistry Group PCnorm: gentle dentistry
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Gentle Dentistry Group PCnorm: gentle dentistry
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 831
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions; CE expected to conduct a risk analysis and implement a corresponding remediation plan.
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.