KENTUCKYSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancialCriticalContained

Southern Orthopaedic Associates

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 20, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

106,910

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Southern Orthopaedic Associates →2 incidents on file

Southern Orthopaedic Associates d/b/a Orthopaedic Institute of Western Kentucky reported to HHS on 2021-12-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 106,910 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack compromising PHI including names, addresses, DOB, driver's license numbers, SSNs, claims, financial info, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and health insurance info. The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, provided credit monitoring, and implemented security safeguards.

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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

Dec 20, 2021

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_a954790451e4e0c12021-12-20Candidate
Montana State AGbd_bafc8258b7cd5e362021-12-20Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_e6e0fcfe6269eec82021-12-20Verified

Name: Southern Orthopaedic Associates
norm: southern orthopaedic associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Southern Orthopaedic Associates
norm: southern orthopaedic associates
Also named: Southern Orthopaedic Associatesdba oflegal entity
Orthopaedic Institute of Western Kentuckydba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 106,910nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Maine State AGDec 20 · first

Montana State AGDec 20 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 20 · first

HHS OCRDec 20 · first · this page

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: Dec 20, 2021
Raw hash: 268b26cdfd935c1e6442ed909dad8670b07f738c9c4a8f468115ed36918fd789

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySouthern Orthopaedic Associates

Victim entitySouthern Orthopaedic Associates

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing