TENNESSEEHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Hermitage Eye Care, PLLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 5, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

11,672

Confidence

68%

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Hermitage Eye Care, PLLC dba Dover Eye Care reported to HHS on 2021-11-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 11,672 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate experienced a security incident where ePHI was accessible via an internet patient portal. ePHI included names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, diagnoses, and conditions. The BA implemented additional 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

Nov 5, 2021

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.Confirmed11,672 affectedView incident

Name: Hermitage Eye Care, PLLC
norm: hermitage eye care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Hermitage Eye Care, PLLC
norm: hermitage eye care
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Hermitage Eye Care, PLLCdba oflegal entity
Dover Eye Caredba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 11,672nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR investigation
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website
BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI
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: Nov 5, 2021
Raw hash: 597b8a18e9ab5b12e477c736625b8caa05465382d7841d0f262890ca88548c41

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Reporting entityHermitage Eye Care, PLLC

Victim entityHermitage Eye Care, PLLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing