TENNESSEEHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Summit Medical Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 12, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

4,135

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Summit Medical Group, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Summit Medical Group, PLLC reported to HHS on 2024-01-12 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4135 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was subject to an email phishing scheme compromising PHI including names, patient IDs, birthdates, 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

Jan 12, 2024

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.Confirmed4,135 affectedView incident

Name: Summit Medical Group, Inc.
norm: summit medical
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Summit Medical Group, Inc.
norm: summit medical
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,135nationwide
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: Sanctioned the workforce member involved
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security precautions
Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security precautions
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: Jan 12, 2024
Raw hash: 91b531292f0f3d7c42758c7c9cc24f38acf6e163e5abff0accb2190e4b13bf81

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Reporting entitySummit Medical Group, Inc.

Victim entitySummit Medical Group, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the workforce member involved

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing