GEORGIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Piedmont Cancer Institute, P.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 15, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

5,226

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Piedmont Cancer Institute, P.C. →3 incidents on file

Piedmont Cancer Institute, P.C. reported to HHS on 2020-09-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5226 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, DOBs, SSNs, diagnoses, and financial info.

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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

Sep 15, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_b1402fa116cf08792020-09-15Verified

Name: Piedmont Cancer Institute, P.C.
norm: piedmont cancer institute
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Piedmont Cancer Institute, P.C.
norm: piedmont cancer institute
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,226nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGSep 15 · first

HHS OCRSep 15 · first · this page

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: Sep 15, 2020
Raw hash: a1935821fbabea11c48a6fa16e8214907d1974d282474202492a82246e5c1fd1

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPiedmont Cancer Institute, P.C.

Victim entityPiedmont Cancer Institute, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing