Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedMulti-Stage ChainPHIIdentity (basic)LowContained

The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics

bd_1dfd61b3d7c053bd · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 17, 2020

Filed

Mar 25, 2021

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

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

The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics, LLC notified patients of unauthorized access to employee email accounts between Oct 2019 and Sep 2020. The breach, discovered Sep 17, 2020, exposed PHI including names. The organization engaged forensic experts, notified the FBI and HHS, and offered two years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 352 days

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 189 days

Oct 1, 2019

Begins

Sep 17, 2020

Discovered

Mar 25, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

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

HHS OCRbd_15a743b069cd451a2021-03-25Candidate
Illinois State AGbd_ceee518dfe1cf47f2021-01-01 · +83dCandidate

Name: The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics
norm: the centers for advanced orthopaedics

Name: The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics
norm: the centers for advanced orthopaedics
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Sep 17, 2020
Breach occurred: Oct 1, 2019 – Sep 30, 2020
Undetected for: 352 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 25, 2021
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesNotified certain state regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation, with the assistance of cybersecurity experts
Commenced an extensive and thorough data mining effort to identify potentially affected patients
Provided notice of this incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Provided notice of this incident to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Provided notice of this incident to the consumer reporting agencies
Provided notice of this incident to certain state regulators
Established a dedicated toll-free call center to answer any questions
Offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with Experian
Changes made: Reviewing its policies and procedures
Assessing its security infrastructure
Implementing additional safeguards to better protect against an incident like this from happening again in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(189 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

HHS OCR+83d

Montana State AG+83d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 25 (MT) — 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.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Cao-notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 25, 2021
Raw hash: efe0306201b29b4342e141835dae160143e44703dfd5367b0c2f37161d7f6e3e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics

Victim entityThe Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics

Incidentdiscovered Sep 17, 2020

Stated responseLaunched an investigation, with the assistance of cybersecurity experts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov