HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

Choice Cancer Care

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 21, 2019

Filed

Nov 15, 2019

To disclose

25 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Choice Cancer Care →

Choice Cancer Care Treatment Center notified Montana regulators of a data incident where an unauthorized actor accessed one employee email account between May 1 and May 21, 2019. The investigation confirmed patient names, PHI, and in rare cases SSNs, driver's licenses, and credit card info were present. No evidence of misuse was found. The company engaged forensic investigators and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 20 days

discovery → filing · 25 weeks / 178 days

May 1, 2019

Begins

May 21, 2019

Discovered

Nov 15, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_ba0a60f190096b742019-11-15Candidate

Name: Choice Cancer Care
norm: choice cancer care

Name: Choice Cancer Care
norm: choice cancer care
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: May 21, 2019
Breach occurred: May 1, 2019 – May 21, 2019
Undetected for: 20 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 15, 2019
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHI
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to relevant state regulatorsReported the incident to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Commenced an investigation, which included working with a leading third-party forensic investigation firm
Quickly took steps to confirm the security of our employee email accounts
Reporting the incident to relevant state regulators and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Arranged to have ID Experts protect your identity for [LoS] months at no cost to you
Changes made: Reviewing our policies and procedures relating to data security
Conducting additional employee training on data privacy and security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 weeks(178 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRNov 15 · first

Montana State AGNov 15 · 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notice-51.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 15, 2019
Raw hash: 1c5f6803626d8e4e8131d94471d3cec61d470ae924be4dbef7bfdc230b67507b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChoice Cancer Care

Victim entityChoice Cancer Care

Incidentdiscovered May 21, 2019

Stated responseCommenced an investigation, which included working with a leading third-party forensic investigation firm

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov