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VIRGINIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialHighContained

Galstan & Ward Family and Cosmetic Dentistry

bd_618991c8e2f0f849 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 6, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

11,258

Confidence

68%
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Galstan & Ward Family and Cosmetic Dentistry reported to HHS on 2020-11-06 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 11258 individuals. Breached information located on Email, Network Server. The incident involved a ransomware attack encrypting ePHI including names, SSNs, DOBs, driver's license numbers, and medical data.

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 6, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11,258 affectedView incident

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.