WASHINGTONMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Northwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 26, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

20,838

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Northwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC →2 incidents on file

Northwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC reported to HHS on 2020-10-26 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware) affecting 20,838 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. ePHI included names, addresses, DOB, driver's license, SSN, financial, and clinical data.

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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

Oct 26, 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

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_95acb217fd0a22612020-09-30 · +26dCandidate

Name: Northwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC
norm: northwest eye surgeons pc and sight
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Northwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC
norm: northwest eye surgeons pc and sight
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,838nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Established a complimentary phone number for questions and concerns
Provided credit monitoring services
Strengthened their technical safeguards
Retrained staff
Changes made: Strengthened technical safeguards
Retrained staff
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

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Washington State AGSep 30 · first

HHS OCR+26d · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 30 (WA), last Oct 26 (WA) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Oct 26, 2020
Raw hash: 5813bb2793c583ab1bedd1c86ac47e895c2eb8b5368d76c909cf1020b3f24c13

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC

Victim entityNorthwest Eye Surgeons, P.C. and Sight Partners LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing