NORTH DAKOTASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

CoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 6, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,813

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for CoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC →

CoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC (a Business Associate in ND) reported to HHS on 2018-08-06 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,813 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI including names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, addresses, and health insurance information. Breached information was located in Email. The BA notified HHS and the media; the covered entity notified affected individuals. Mitigation included additional administrative/technical safeguards and staff retraining on identifying fraudulent emails.

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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

Aug 6, 2018

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.Confirmed1,813 affectedView incident

Name: CoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC
norm: corelink administrative

Name: CoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC
norm: corelink administrative
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,813nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSNotified media; CE notified affected individuals
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Staff retrained on identifying fraudulent email communications
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.

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: Aug 6, 2018
Raw hash: ea1d1755cff47e75e9d482316725b4f3b4c888343d9741ed483fe284b9ff4fb8

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Reporting entityCoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC

Victim entityCoreLink Administrative Solutions, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative and technical safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing