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Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates, P.A.

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Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates, P.A. (NC) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-02-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 925 individuals. On December 5, 2017, a shared drive folder was infected with ransomware delivered via a phishing attack. Exposed PHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs, insurance, driver's license, Medicare info, email addresses, ethnicities, medical histories, medications, and billing histories. Breached info located on Desktop Computer and Network Server. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media. Remediation included new hard drives, security updates, firewall resets, backup restoration, workforce retraining, and updated HIPAA policies. The practice closed April 30, 2019.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 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.Confirmed925 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: Feb 1, 2018
Raw hash: 5203776ebbce98aa67627c0c96e642214dcfb7cd89291e096b0582ce1e30aa25

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates, P.A.
norm: coastal cape fear eye associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates, P.A.
norm: coastal cape fear eye associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Dec 5, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 925
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification filedOCR obtained assurances of corrective actions
Initial access: phishing_attachment

Compliance

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 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: Dec 5, 2017
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Dec 5, 2017 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.