TEXASHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Questcare Medical Services, PLLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 12, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

5,573

Confidence

69%

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Questcare Medical Services, PLLC reported to HHS on 2019-04-12 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5573 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that affected ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, MRNs, and clinical info. CE retrained employees on email security and implemented safeguards.

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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

Apr 12, 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.Confirmed5,573 affectedView incident

Name: Questcare Medical Services, PLLC
norm: questcare medical
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Questcare Medical Services, PLLC
norm: questcare medical
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,573nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
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: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Retrained its employees on email security
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Retrained its employees on email security
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
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: Apr 12, 2019
Raw hash: 6c8c99781a1c7e1f3fd37b25a3e19d444bf5c195bbf4eb0554b5b91bcf25e417

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Reporting entityQuestcare Medical Services, PLLC

Victim entityQuestcare Medical Services, PLLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRetrained its employees on email security

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing