OHIOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

USACS Management Group, Ltd.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 8, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

15,552

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for USACS Management Group, Ltd. →

USACS Management Group, Ltd. reported to HHS on 2018-05-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 15,552 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The business associate reported that multiple employees were the victims of an email phishing attack that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 15,552 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medication information, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. The BA also offered complimentary identity theft protection services to those affected. In response to the breach, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI. Employees were also retrained on email security.

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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

May 8, 2018

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_1b6305722a9ae92a2018-05-08Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_b2e461e9e175b9a12018-05-08Verified
Montana State AGbd_ec23e2aaf77d1b4c2018-05-08Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_54fadeb42e9abe2e2018-05-16 · +8dVerified

Name: USACS Management Group, Ltd.
norm: usacs management
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: USACS Management Group, Ltd.
norm: usacs management
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 15,552nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
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
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via USACS Management Group, Ltd.business associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided substitute notice on its website
Offered complimentary identity theft protection services to those affected
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
Retrained employees on email security
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
Retrained employees on email security
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.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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California State AGMay 8 · first

Massachusetts State AGMay 8 · first

Montana State AGMay 8 · first

HHS OCRMay 8 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing May 8 (CA), last May 16 (NH) — a 8-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://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: May 8, 2018
Raw hash: 86942edaa07264fad948c7e89fedd1c67a8362d348047eb17382ea423f4b2e10

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUSACS Management Group, Ltd.

Victim entityUSACS Management Group, Ltd.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing