MINNESOTASocial EngineeringHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Bassford Remele P.A.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 25, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

4,435

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Bassford Remele P.A. →

Bassford Remele P.A. (a business associate law firm in MN) reported to HHS OCR on 2025-02-25 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,435 individuals. An employee was targeted by an email phishing scheme that compromised PHI including names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and diagnoses/conditions. Breached information was located on Email systems. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided security awareness training and enhanced access controls. OCR provided technical assistance.

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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

Feb 25, 2025

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.Confirmed4,435 affectedView incident

Name: Bassford Remele P.A.
norm: bassford remele
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Bassford Remele P.A.
norm: bassford remele
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,435nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR technical assistance provided
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided security awareness training to workforce
Enhanced access controls
Changes made: Security awareness training for workforce
Enhanced access controls to better protect PHI
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: Feb 25, 2025
Raw hash: 14913dad452d19861c81606fee2c7ea8fce4345ecdef173ba15be0f1127b0cad

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Reporting entityBassford Remele P.A.

Victim entityBassford Remele P.A.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing