FLORIDAMalwareHealthcareHealthcarePhishingRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Bay Area Heart Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 30, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

11,709

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Bay Area Heart Center →

Bay Area Heart Center, PA reported to HHS on 2024-01-30 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 11,709 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A business associate employee was phished, leading to ransomware installation and PHI exfiltration (names, SSNs, DOB, claims). The CE provided credit monitoring, enhanced safeguards, and terminated the BA relationship.

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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 30, 2024

Filed

—

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.Confirmed11,709 affectedView incident

Name: Bay Area Heart Center
norm: bay area heart center
Domain: bahc.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Bay Area Heart Center
norm: bay area heart center
Domain: bahc.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 11,709nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Terminated its business relationship with the BA
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI
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 30, 2024
Raw hash: de5e20664a41b5bb5931f49d79a6efed83eb01e21ac5ddbd2d180607bd3717f0

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Reporting entityBay Area Heart Center

Victim entityBay Area Heart Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing