CONNECTICUTMalwareHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)HighContained

Valley Orthopaedic Specialists

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

5,062

Confidence

69%

Valley Orthopaedic Specialists reported to HHS on 2023-05-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5,062 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved ransomware encrypting PHI (names, SSNs, addresses, DOB, diagnoses, medications).

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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

May 26, 2023

Filed

—

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.Confirmed5,062 affectedView incident

Name: Valley Orthopaedic Specialists
norm: valley orthopaedic specialists
Domain: vobj.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Valley Orthopaedic Specialists
norm: valley orthopaedic specialists
Domain: vobj.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,062nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified HHS

During the incident: Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained
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: May 26, 2023
Raw hash: 761c15b402f2a1f84164d683021e34569558c05f2eb778f50efa707335254cd7

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Reporting entityValley Orthopaedic Specialists

Victim entityValley Orthopaedic Specialists

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided complimentary credit monitoring services

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing