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LOUISIANAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Internal Medicine Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 22, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

2,000

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Internal Medicine Associates →2 incidents on file

Atchafalaya Internal Medicine Associates reported to HHS on 2017-06-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2000 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer, Electronic Medical Record, Email, Laptop, Other Portable Electronic Device. The entity reported a malware attack on its desktop computers that may have compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 2000 patients. The business has since ceased operations.

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

Jun 22, 2017

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.Confirmed2,000 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.