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VERMONTHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Gifford Health Care

bd_277b17ac5040c4b8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 23, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

6,777

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Gifford Health Care →

Gifford Health Care (VT) reported to HHS on 2021-04-23 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 6,777 individuals. The covered entity's business associate was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected ePHI stored on a Network Server. Exposed information included names, dates of birth, prescription information, and medical record numbers. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals; the BA provided media notification.

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

Apr 23, 2021

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.Confirmed6,777 affectedView incident

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.