DisclosureLens
NEW YORKHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Niagara County Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

bd_641d52e6f5bfbca5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 5, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

17,000

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Niagara County Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse →2 incidents on file

Niagara County Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse reported to HHS on 2022-08-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 17,000 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of phishing, exposing PHI including names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, diagnoses, and treatment info.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 5, 2022

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.Confirmed17,000 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.