FLORIDAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountHighContained

Superior Dental Care Alliance, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,723,375

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Superior Dental Care Alliance, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Dental Care Alliance, LLC, a Florida-based business associate, reported to HHS on 2020-12-08 a ransomware attack affecting 1,723,375 individuals' ePHI stored on a network server. Exposed data included names, addresses, clinical information, financial information, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and responded by implementing additional administrative and technical safeguards and retraining employees.

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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

Dec 8, 2020

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Maine State AGbd_087ca9f98f0761fd2020-12-07 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_61440b0ca3e974642020-12-07 · +1dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_97a661eb6c255f652020-12-07 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_7c3d97cdde7e1ce12020-12-14 · +6dVerified

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 41d gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ab0b178b0b2d36c02020-10-29 · +40dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_5762d62d0cd7aad62020-10-28 · +41dVerified

Name: Superior Dental Care Alliance, Inc.
norm: superior dental care alliance

Name: Superior Dental Care Alliance, Inc.
norm: superior dental care alliance
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,723,375nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Indiana State AGOct 28 · first

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Maine State AG+40d

Montana State AG+40d

Delaware State AG+40d

HHS OCR+41d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+47d

Pattern: first filing Oct 28 (IN), last Dec 14 (NH) — a 47-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.

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: Dec 8, 2020
Raw hash: 143bae03c2e650849a4e963846d34018e9e55d51370ae33a0bfba3225ecb6835

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySuperior Dental Care Alliance, Inc.

Victim entitySuperior Dental Care Alliance, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing