MisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

Thomasville Eye Center

bd_4eae573bdd306b90 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 8, 2016

Filed

Sep 28, 2016

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Thomasville Eye Center →

Thomasville Eye Center disclosed that an employee accessed patient records and used personal information (including SSN and medical billing data) to open an unauthorized credit account. Discovered August 8, 2016. The employee was fired, law enforcement was notified, and one year of identity monitoring via Kroll was offered to affected patients.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 51 days

Aug 8, 2016

Discovered

Sep 28, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_b8c51f3bbf7883962016-09-28Candidate
South Carolina State AGbd_1a5cfb546e698e122016-10-04 · +6dVerified

Name: Thomasville Eye Center
norm: thomasville eye center

Name: Thomasville Eye Center
norm: thomasville eye center
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Aug 8, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 16, 2016
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notifying law enforcementcontinuing to cooperate with law enforcement’s investigation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Opened an internal investigation
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring
Firing the employee
Notifying law enforcement
Continuing to cooperate with law enforcement’s investigation
Changes made: Restricting the number of employees authorized to process credit applications
Masking patient Social Security numbers
Monitoring and auditing of credit applications
Restricting staff access to financial information
No longer taking Care Credit Card payments over the phone
Retraining staff regarding the protection of personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(51 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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HHS OCRSep 28 · first

Montana State AGSep 28 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Sep 28 (GA), last Oct 4 (SC) — a 6-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Thomasville-Eye-Center.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 28, 2016
Raw hash: ebcc99ab4416339fdaa6a63f39e419eb1215588533d10791fc504da2e089bd8e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThomasville Eye Center

Victim entityThomasville Eye Center

Incidentdiscovered Aug 8, 2016

Stated responseOpened an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov