HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsTargetedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

The Center for Advanced Eye Care

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 16, 2025

Filed

Feb 20, 2026

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Center for Advanced Eye Care →

The Center for Advanced Eye Care notified consumers of a data security incident discovered on December 16, 2025, involving unauthorized access to legacy systems containing PHI and personal information. The Practice engaged a third-party forensic firm, secured the environment, and is offering credit monitoring and fraud assistance to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock⏱ VT AG >14 bday9 weeks 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

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Dec 16, 2025

Discovered

Feb 20, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_7e831a6129cad9bb2026-02-20Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f3911209750895c32026-02-20Verified
Indiana State AGbd_08b67fc72f162d1d2026-02-19 · +1dCandidate
Delaware State AGbd_53ef02114fbdbda22026-02-19 · +1dVerified

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Indiana State AGbd_59e817da002f0eb92026-02-19 · +1dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_d23e6ecf72cd63122026-06-12 · +112dVerified

Name: The Center for Advanced Eye Care
norm: the center for advanced eye care

Name: The Center for Advanced Eye Care
norm: the center for advanced eye care
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 16, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 19, 2026
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the legacy environment
Engaged a specialized third-party cybersecurity firm to conduct a comprehensive investigation
Enhancing our technical security measures and procedures
Providing you with access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing you with proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Enhancing our technical security measures and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(66 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >14 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 · 7 filings · 6 states

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Indiana State AGFeb 19 · first

Delaware State AGFeb 19 · first

Indiana State AGFeb 19 · first

HHS OCR+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Vermont State AG+1d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+113d

Pattern: first filing Feb 19 (IN), last Jun 12 (NH) — a 113-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/2026-02-20-center-advanced-eye-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 20, 2026
Raw hash: 24b9c80180f3b00a9c0bf22ec16a9fb4a3edc608d918463d77385da611fde030

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Center for Advanced Eye Care

Victim entityThe Center for Advanced Eye Care

Incidentdiscovered Dec 16, 2025

Stated responseSecured the legacy environment

ComplianceVT AG >14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov