NEW YORKHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

East End Disability Associates, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 20, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

896

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for East End Disability Associates, Inc. →2 incidents on file

East End Disability Associates, Inc. reported to HHS on 2018-11-20 a hacking incident affecting 896 individuals. The breach occurred when a hacker compromised five employee email accounts and set them to auto-forward to an external address, potentially exposing patient names, birthdates, addresses, account numbers, and protected health information.

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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

Nov 20, 2018

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.Confirmed896 affectedView incident

Name: East End Disability Associates, Inc.
norm: east end disability associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: East End Disability Associates, Inc.
norm: east end disability associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 896nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions.CE is expected to develop and implement a risk management plan.

During the incident: Investigated and removed auto-forwarding rules and global administrative rights from the affected email accounts.
Reviewed other user accounts to confirm that forwarding rules had not been applied.
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media.
Changes made: Implemented two-factor authentication for access to email accounts and computer login.
Revised policies and procedures regarding internal sharing of PHI.
Trained staff on the revised policies and procedures.
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: Nov 20, 2018
Raw hash: dec004b7566c80f8cd682cee69fb9473a5c454f4cb0272c953cce00fa21a9bb6

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Reporting entityEast End Disability Associates, Inc.

Victim entityEast End Disability Associates, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseInvestigated and removed auto-forwarding rules and global administrative rights from the affected email accounts.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing