PENNSYLVANIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Lehigh Valley Women's Medical Specialties, P.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 30, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

4,535

Confidence

68%

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Lehigh Valley Women's Medical Specialties, P.C. reported to HHS on 2022-11-30 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4535 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack affecting PHI including names, DOBs, SSNs, driver's licenses, diagnoses, and treatment 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

Nov 30, 2022

Filed

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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.Confirmed4,535 affectedView incident

Name: Lehigh Valley Women's Medical Specialties, P.C.
norm: lehigh valley women s medical specialties
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Lehigh Valley Women's Medical Specialties, P.C.
norm: lehigh valley women s medical specialties
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,535nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
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: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Revised policies and procedures
Provided training to its workforce
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Revised policies and procedures
Provided training to its workforce
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.

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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: Nov 30, 2022
Raw hash: e173469e2cccd6430a3f215e4d321c9c2618e60911fe76630b1c0bac1fcbcda6

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Reporting entityLehigh Valley Women's Medical Specialties, P.C.

Victim entityLehigh Valley Women's Medical Specialties, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing