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White Coats Wellness

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 8, 2017

Filed

Jul 10, 2017

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

15,000

Confidence

67%

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White Coats Wellness reported to HHS on 2017-07-10 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 15,000 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee responded to a phishing email, compromising ePHI (demographic information). White Coats Wellness is a business associate.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified9 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 / 63 days

May 8, 2017

Discovered

Jul 10, 2017

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed15,000 affectedView incident

Name: White Coats Wellness
norm: white coats wellness
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: White Coats Wellness
norm: white coats wellness
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: May 8, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 15,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Third party: via White Coats Wellnessbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Investigated the incident
Reset employees’ account passwords
Updated its malware detection system
Implemented a new policy that requires a periodic review and cleanup of old data
Retrained staff on how to identify phishing schemes
Changes made: Conducted a new risk analysis and risk management plan
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(63 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS notified
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.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: May 8, 2017
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: May 8, 2017 → 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: Jul 10, 2017
Raw hash: bc8d975ff38e108f96808b6311dea7d64e35505f2488dee41acfba1c9113910d

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Reporting entityWhite Coats Wellness

Victim entityWhite Coats Wellness

Incidentdiscovered May 8, 2017

Stated responseInvestigated the incident

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing