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Athens Orthopedic Clinic, P.A.
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Full breach record for Athens Orthopedic Clinic, P.A. →Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA reported to HHS OCR on 2016-07-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 201,000 individuals; breached information was located on Electronic Medical Records. A hacker used a vendor's credentials on June 14, 2016 to access the EMR system and exfiltrate PHI—including names, DOBs, SSNs, medical procedures, test results, and health insurance information—continuing until July 16, 2016. The hacker demanded money for return of the stolen data. Athens Orthopedic agreed to a $1.5M HHS OCR settlement and a two-year corrective action plan.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified5 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed201,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 29, 2016
- Raw hash
- 7928efe788cbcaadee384bf58465b16bd9b97e66883651e7f887dfcbb2525c87
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Athens Orthopedic Clinic, P.A.norm: athens orthopedic clinic
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Athens Orthopedic Clinic, P.A.norm: athens orthopedic clinic
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 26, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 201,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation; $1,500,000 settlement and corrective action plan with two years of monitoring
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(33 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: Jun 26, 2016→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.