MARYLANDAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

The Affiliated Sante Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 31, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

550

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for The Affiliated Sante Group →2 incidents on file

The Affiliated Sante Group reported to HHS on 2017-01-31 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 550 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. A contractor inadvertently posted PHI including names, addresses, DOBs, and SSNs on an open source forum.

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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

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Breach window unknown

Jan 31, 2017

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed550 affectedView incident

Name: The Affiliated Sante Group
norm: the affiliated sante
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Affiliated Sante Group
norm: the affiliated sante
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 550nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the CE's risk analysis to ensure compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule

During the incident: Ensured that the directory was deleted from the forum
Terminated its relationship with the contractor
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: OCR reviewed the CE's risk analysis to ensure compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule
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.

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: Jan 31, 2017
Raw hash: 8556c0499038dce974924702430be09c791e7c0ffed760f8f192b76277a15c6c

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Reporting entityThe Affiliated Sante Group

Victim entityThe Affiliated Sante Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEnsured that the directory was deleted from the forum

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing