GEORGIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 21, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

39,300

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C. →2 incidents on file

Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C. reported to HHS on 2021-12-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 39300 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved a ransomware attack exposing PHI including names, SSNs, and medical data.

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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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 21, 2021

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Illinois State AGbd_623ac4565a23c4f42022-01-01 · +11dCandidate

Name: Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C.
norm: georgia bone joint surgeons
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Georgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C.
norm: georgia bone joint surgeons
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,300nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRDec 21 · first · this page

Illinois State AG+11d

Pattern: first filing Dec 21 (GA), last Jan 1 (IL) — a 11-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.

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: Dec 21, 2021
Raw hash: 76e1bee13e7a8766c6155cd5c6beec4cf12ee5e4549fc10259a85c5a35b878bd

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGeorgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C.

Victim entityGeorgia Bone & Joint Surgeons, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing