MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC

bd_1d56e6a2db4b4736 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 3, 2022

Filed

May 22, 2023

To disclose

15 months

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC →

Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC disclosed a third-party vendor breach involving Alta Medical Management. A malware attack on AMM's billing servers (Nov 2021) and unauthorized access to an online patient portal (Oct 2021) potentially exposed patient names, SSNs, payment card info, and medical records. PVOC offered 12 months of credit monitoring. No specific victim count was disclosed.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday15 months discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 110 days

discovery → filing · 15 months / 445 days

Nov 13, 2021

Begins

Mar 3, 2022

Discovered

May 22, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+51 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_bfbf6b7dc3e118bf2023-05-22Verified
Montana State AGbd_d09209cda06f2c252023-05-22Verified
Indiana State AGbd_fcb5ecb46cad6b092023-05-19 · +3dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_7b723d47816a115a2023-05-26 · +4dVerified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_4b18c4c790d909632023-05-31 · +9dVerified

Name: Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC
norm: pioneer valley ophthalmic consultants

Name: Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC
norm: pioneer valley ophthalmic consultants
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 3, 2022
Breach occurred: Nov 13, 2021 – Nov 15, 2021
Undetected for: 110 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: May 22, 2023
Notification sent: May 22, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying government regulators, as required
Third party: via Alta Medical Management and ECL Group, LLC
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Coordinated with AMM to determine the full nature and scope of this incident
Notifying government regulators, as required
Offering twelve (12) months of complimentary credit monitoring services through Cyberscout/Identity Force
Changes made: AMM implemented additional measures to secure and monitor its environment
AMM will be onboarding additional technical resources and security personnel
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 months(445 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Indiana State AGMay 19 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Montana State AG+3d

Vermont State AG+3d · this page

HHS OCR+7d

New Hampshire State AG+12d

Pattern: first filing May 19 (IN), last May 31 (NH) — a 12-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-05-22-pioneer-valley-ophthalmic-consultants-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 22, 2023
Raw hash: 3b9223204385500dbf94642fa8f464729f71afb8195412631e5c83ac814d0a42

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC

Victim entityPioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 3, 2022

Stated responseCoordinated with AMM to determine the full nature and scope of this incident

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov