VERMONTSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
The Richards Group
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Full breach record for The Richards Group →The Richards Group (VT, Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2021-01-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 15,429 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that compromised PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and health insurance and treatment information. Breached information located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, offered credit monitoring, and retrained staff on email security.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_21cdb6e1e405d086Maine State AGfiled 2021-02-17(20d gap)Verified
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
- Jan 28, 2021
- Raw hash
- 0b85e820db8c16b60ce26aa8d31f2d7ac533f42a2642f6a9a12e618e0dbfb6cb
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Richards Groupnorm: the richards
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- The Richards Groupnorm: the richards
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 24, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 15,429
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notification
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Nov 24, 2020→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.