DisclosureLens
OHIOHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Greater Cincinnati Pathologists, Inc.

bd_6f2b78a8cb37a031 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 23, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

7,725

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Greater Cincinnati Pathologists, Inc. →

Greater Cincinnati Pathologists, Inc. reported to HHS on October 23, 2019, a hacking incident that affected 7,725 individuals. The breach resulted from an employee falling victim to an email phishing attack. The compromised information, located on an email server, included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and clinical/treatment information. In response, the entity provided free credit monitoring, sanctioned the involved staff member, implemented additional security safeguards, and retrained its workforce.

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

Oct 23, 2019

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.Confirmed7,725 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.