FLORIDAHackingHealthcareHealthcareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Business Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDownstream VictimsPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Southeast Eye Institute, P.A.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 5, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

87,314

Confidence

91%

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OCR HHS breach portal entry: Southeast Eye Institute, P.A. dba Eye Associates of Pinellas (FL, healthcare provider) reported a Hacking/IT Incident on a network server affecting 87,314 individuals, submitted 2016-05-05. A business associate was involved. The OCR narrative describes Bizmatics (an EHR/business-associate vendor) as having suffered a cyber-attack affecting PHI of patients of multiple covered entities; the narrative cites ~3,156 patients of named other CEs but Southeast Eye Institute's own filing reports 87,314 affected. PHI included names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, clinical diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. Bizmatics engaged a cybersecurity firm, implemented additional safeguards, and retrained staff; OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

May 5, 2016

Filed

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

Part of Bizmatics supply-chain incident (2016) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed87,314 affectedView incident

Name: Southeast Eye Institute, P.A.
norm: southeast eye institute
Industry: Healthcare Provider

Name: Southeast Eye Institute, P.A.
norm: southeast eye institute
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Also named: Southeast Eye Institute, P.A.dba oflegal entity
eye Associates of Pinellasdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 87,314nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation
Third party: via Bizmatics

During the incident: Bizmatics engaged a cybersecurity firm
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on security measures and patient privacy
Changes made: Additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards implemented
Staff retraining on security and privacy
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.

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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: May 5, 2016
Raw hash: 4e3f094e261c2d6e5dd9cf521884a6c693f5eecd7f57f635ea2a6e02f0ed76b2

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Reporting entitySoutheast Eye Institute, P.A.

Victim entitySoutheast Eye Institute, P.A.

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseBizmatics engaged a cybersecurity firm

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing