DisclosureLens
AccidentalHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)LowContained

Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC

bd_61c59abe6c816259 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jul 6, 2018

Filed

Nov 26, 2018

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education, LLC

Pharmacy Times Office of Continuing Professional Education (PTCE) disclosed that a file containing personally identifiable information (PII) for clients was publicly accessible on its web server between May 11, 2018, and July 6, 2018, due to a misconfiguration. PTCE discovered the exposure on July 6, 2018, and immediately removed the file. The incident affected a limited number of clients, including 804 residents of Rhode Island. PTCE engaged forensic investigators, notified regulators, and offered 12 months of identity monitoring services through Kroll to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

undetected · 56 days
discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 143 days

May 11, 2018

Begins

Jul 6, 2018

Discovered

Nov 26, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filingsup to 72d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Oregon State AGNov 13 · first
Washington State AGNov 13 · first
Massachusetts State AGNov 13 · first
California State AG+13d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 13 (OR), last Feb 6 (NH) — a 85-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.