COLORADOPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Perfect Teeth Yale, P.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 19, 2019

To disclose

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Affected

15,000

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Perfect Teeth Yale, P.C. →

Perfect Teeth Yale, PC (Colorado dental healthcare provider) reported to HHS on 2019-09-19 a Loss affecting 15,000 individuals (web description states 15,854). A portable storage device used to backup patient X-rays went missing, compromising ePHI including names, dates of birth, gender, and other identifiers. No business associate was involved. OCR provided technical assistance; the CE implemented additional safeguards and retrained staff.

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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

Sep 19, 2019

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.Confirmed15,000 affectedView incident

Name: Perfect Teeth Yale, P.C.
norm: perfect teeth yale
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Perfect Teeth Yale, P.C.
norm: perfect teeth yale
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 15,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding requirements of the Breach Notification and Security Rules

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained employees to better protect the privacy of ePHI
Notified HHS, affected individuals, media, and posted substitute notice on website
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: Sep 19, 2019
Raw hash: dc49fa126383bad5b6efcefad796753a313333634bd5af763e309d2b30e8073a

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Reporting entityPerfect Teeth Yale, P.C.

Victim entityPerfect Teeth Yale, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing