NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPIIPHIFinancialIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Ott Cone & Redpath, P.A.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Oct 31, 2024

Filed

Dec 18, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

22,171

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Ott Cone & Redpath, P.A. →

Ott Cone & Redpath, P.A., a North Carolina law firm acting as a HIPAA business associate, reported to HHS OCR on 2024-12-18 that an email phishing attack against employees compromised the PHI of 22,171 individuals. Affected data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, conditions, and other treatment information. The firm notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; posted substitute notice; and remediated by adopting encryption, strengthening policies, and adding technical safeguards.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 48 days

Oct 31, 2024

Discovered

Dec 18, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_15a339fb6f756dd72024-12-16 · +2dVerified
Montana State AGbd_0be51e9ca9dbbe372024-12-13 · +5dVerified
Maine State AGbd_4522d49d8820a6c92024-12-13 · +5dVerified
Maryland State AGbd_cc66493ca7870bbf2025-01-02 · +15dVerified

Name: Ott Cone & Redpath, P.A.
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Name: Ott Cone & Redpath, P.A.
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Industry: Legal/Professional Services (Healthcare Business Associate)
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 31, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 22,171nationwide
Data types: PIIPHIFinancialIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report submitted 2024-12-18

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice
Changes made: Adopted encryption technologies
Strengthened security policies and procedures
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Oct 31, 2024
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Oct 31, 2024
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Oct 31, 2024 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Oct 31, 2024 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Montana State AGDec 13 · first

Maine State AGDec 13 · first

New Hampshire State AG+3d

HHS OCR+5d · this page

Maryland State AG+20d

Pattern: first filing Dec 13 (MT), last Jan 2 (MD) — a 20-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Dec 18, 2024
Raw hash: 6c530e733754bbf9a67ab49713bc6bacde004aced4b254684ec2890c604d67f4

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityOtt Cone & Redpath, P.A.

Victim entityOtt Cone & Redpath, P.A.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 31, 2024

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing