CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Synergy Specialists Medical Group

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 27, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

569

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Synergy Specialists Medical Group →

Synergy Specialists Medical Group, Inc reported to HHS on 2017-01-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 569 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee opened a phishing email, compromising the account and causing false emails to patients. 71 patient names and email addresses were impermissibly disclosed due to failure to BCC.

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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

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_c20f97265971c9b02017-01-27Verified
Montana State AGbd_119719b412e703c72017-01-26 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4fb68aa4d1cf135f2017-01-25 · +2dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8ece311d7d7515312017-01-25 · +2dVerified

Name: Synergy Specialists Medical Group
norm: synergy specialists medical
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Synergy Specialists Medical Group
norm: synergy specialists medical
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 569nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured its email account
Began a forensic investigation to determine the cause and extent of the incident
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Revised policies
Trained workforce members to improve its security prevention and detection practices
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
Revised policies
Trained workforce members to improve its security prevention and detection practices
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.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 25 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 25 · first

Montana State AG+1d

California State AG+2d

HHS OCR+2d · this page

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: Jan 27, 2017
Raw hash: 692ab2d5116ac8f25a61298c337ac220a7171fe59f00f56f69bed7ecd045f576

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySynergy Specialists Medical Group

Victim entitySynergy Specialists Medical Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSecured its email account

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing