NEW YORKMalwareHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighResolved
BST & CO. CPAS, LLP
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Full breach record for BST & CO. CPAS, LLP →BST & Co. CPAs, LLP, a New York public accounting and management consulting firm acting as a HIPAA business associate, reported to HHS OCR on 2020-02-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 170,000 individuals. On December 7, 2019, BST discovered part of its network was infected with ransomware, impacting PHI of its covered entity client stored on a Network Server. OCR found BST failed to conduct an adequate risk analysis. BST settled for $175,000 and entered a two-year corrective action plan.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified10 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_90095c1200eb1d11Montana State AGfiled 2020-02-14(2d gap)Verified
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
- Feb 16, 2020
- Raw hash
- 5fa5869fdc198e6919ff3902fd7703402258d0565415a4b6778bb50944886592
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- BST & CO. CPAS, LLPnorm: bst co cpas
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- BST & CO. CPAS, LLPnorm: bst co cpas
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 7, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 170,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation initiated following breach report filed 2020-02-16Settlement reached with HHS OCR; $175,000 civil monetary paymentTwo-year corrective action plan monitored by OCR
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- 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: Dec 7, 2019→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.