DisclosureLens
GEORGIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 3, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

53,686

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic →3 incidents on file

Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic reported to HHS on 2022-01-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 53,686 individuals. The breach involved a business associate experiencing a ransomware attack that compromised electronic protected health information (ePHI), including names, dates of service, and treatment information. The breach is consolidated into an existing compliance review of the business associate.

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

Jan 3, 2022

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed53,686 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.