COLORADOHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)High

Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 21, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

23,377

Confidence

50%

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A phishing attack on Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Associates, PLLP's email accounts compromised the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 23,377 individuals. The exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, financial details, and medical information. The entity responded by notifying affected individuals and media, sanctioning the involved workforce member, implementing new technical safeguards, updating security policies, and retraining staff. OCR provided technical assistance following the incident.

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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

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Breach window unknown

Jan 21, 2019

Filed

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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.Confirmed23,377 affectedView incident

Name: Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates
norm: critical care pulmonary sleep associates
Domain: critcaremd.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates
norm: critical care pulmonary sleep associates
Domain: critcaremd.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 23,377nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided the CE with technical assistance.

During the incident: Notified affected individuals of the breach
Notified prominent media outlets of the breach
Sanctioned the workforce member who fell victim to the phishing attack
Changes made: Implemented additional technical controls to better safeguard its ePHI
Updated its security awareness and HIPAA policies and procedures
Retrained its workforce
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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: Jan 21, 2019
Raw hash: f5164ea0d79b6d8c423730027de65db321a83249b87a4fcfec59f4c1b8965a39

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Reporting entityCritical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates

Victim entityCritical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals of the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing