DisclosureLens
OHIOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Equitas Health

bd_4421d347673f10d6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 9, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

569

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Equitas Health →2 incidents on file

Equitas Health (Ohio healthcare provider) reported to HHS OCR that an employee fell victim to an email phishing scheme exposing ePHI of 569 individuals. Compromised data included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and prescribed medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards; and retrained workforce on identifying fraudulent email. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 9, 2019

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.Confirmed569 affectedView incident

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.