GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

Ridgeview Institute

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 29, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,853

Confidence

68%

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Ridgeview Institute - Monroe reported to HHS on 2020-05-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1853 individuals. Breached information located on Email, Paper/Films. An employee copied and emailed ePHI to her personal account. The CE implemented safeguards and obtained a court injunction.

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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 29, 2020

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.Confirmed1,853 affectedView incident

Name: Ridgeview Institute
norm: ridgeview institute
Domain: ridgeviewinstitute.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Ridgeview Institute
norm: ridgeview institute
Domain: ridgeviewinstitute.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,853nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: EmailPaper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Provided affected individuals with a toll-free hotline to call with questions or concerns
Obtained a permanent injunction via the U.S Court System requiring the former employee to destroy all material and not to disseminate the ePHI further
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI
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: May 29, 2020
Raw hash: 93365d1c099ab032d7d1dd6bccca4b76cfaebe886a4251809a1ef6aa03f4d01d

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Reporting entityRidgeview Institute

Victim entityRidgeview Institute

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing