IOWASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 16, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

10,313

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Primary Health Care, Inc. (Iowa) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-03-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 10,313 individuals. The covered entity was the victim of an email phishing attack; compromised accounts contained PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license numbers, Social Security numbers, claims information, financial information, diagnoses/conditions, and treatment information. The CE suspended affected accounts, implemented additional technical safeguards, retrained staff, and notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions. Breached information located on Email.

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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

Mar 16, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed10,313 affectedView incident

Name: Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.
norm: albany area primary health care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.
norm: albany area primary health care
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10,313nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCROCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately suspended affected email accounts
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained staff
Changes made: Suspended compromised email accounts
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Staff retraining on phishing awareness
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: Mar 16, 2018
Raw hash: f11ee132d8a912288a5dd0271e357e2d9a08ca72ff9ea56d1a3fa67bef4aa79c

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Reporting entityAlbany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.

Victim entityAlbany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately suspended affected email accounts

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing