CALIFORNIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData ExfiltratedData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Center for Orthopaedic Specialists
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Full breach record for Center for Orthopaedic Specialists →Center for Orthopaedic Specialists - Providence Medical Institute (PMI) reported to HHS on 2018-04-18 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 85,000 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The breach involved ransomware attacks encrypting ePHI between February and March 2018. A $240,000 civil monetary penalty was imposed by OCR.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Feb 1, 2018 → Notified Apr 18, 201876d ✗ HIPAA 60-day late11 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_1884c9e76ff496c9California State AGfiled 2018-04-19(1d gap)Candidate
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
- Apr 18, 2018
- Raw hash
- 61e7dd1cec3d81618fe100b2b85834b069ce39c9e3275d53ea92b8a7e3224823
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Center for Orthopaedic Specialistsnorm: center for orthopaedic specialists
- Domain
- cosortho.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Center for Orthopaedic Specialistsnorm: center for orthopaedic specialists
- Domain
- cosortho.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 1, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 18, 2018
- Affected individuals
- 85,000
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 11 weeks(76 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day late · 76dHHS notified · 76d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Feb 1, 2018→ Notified: Apr 18, 201876d 60 days HIPAA 60-day late HIPAA Discovered: Feb 1, 2018→ Notified: Apr 18, 201876d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.