GAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Lanier Family & Cosmetic Dentistry, P.C.
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Full breach record for Lanier Family & Cosmetic Dentistry, P.C. →Lanier Family & Cosmetic Dentistry, P.C. (GA) reported to HHS on 2019-01-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,950 individuals. On October 24, 2018, via a business associate, an employee erroneously sent emails to 1,953 patients containing a spreadsheet with PHI including names, genders, ages, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The CE sanctioned the employee, trained staff on a new email policy, terminated the BA contract, and revised its policies. Breached information was located in Email.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified14 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,950 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 29, 2019
- Raw hash
- 400a3d21bf82527a77a6dfcdb189a7ad6b3a819e754b4fa80b9a9ac96d07e398
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Lanier Family & Cosmetic Dentistry, P.C.norm: lanier family cosmetic dentistry
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Lanier Family & Cosmetic Dentistry, P.C.norm: lanier family cosmetic dentistry
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 24, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,950
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR investigationOCR provided technical assistance on breach definition, notification, policies and procedures, and BA agreementsCE submitted breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and media
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 14 weeks(97 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Oct 24, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.