MARYLANDMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Capital Nephrology
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Full breach record for Capital Nephrology →Capital Nephrology (MD) reported to HHS on 2017-05-02 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,000 individuals. The CE's EMR system and backup network server were encrypted by ransomware. Breached PHI included names and clinical information. Following the incident, the CE migrated to a cloud-based encrypted EMR, added antiviral protections, and — as a result of OCR's investigation — completed a risk analysis, developed a risk management plan, and revised its HIPAA policies and procedures. Breached info located on Electronic Medical Record and Network Server.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,000 affectedView incident
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
- May 2, 2017
- Raw hash
- 32fd27a2520cb77b96221c497f8d77f3a9c50011c316af01363c703adfa9b227
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Capital Nephrologynorm: capital nephrology
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Capital Nephrologynorm: capital nephrology
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 4,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation completed; CE completed risk analysis, developed risk management plan, and revised HIPAA policies and procedures.
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.