ILLINOISHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Illinois Valley Podiatry Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 8, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

26,588

Confidence

94%

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Illinois Valley Podiatry Group (IL) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-03-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 26,588 individuals. Business associate Bizmatics, Inc., which provided online storage and management of patient health records, discovered unauthorized access to servers hosting the CE's patient files. Breached ePHI included diagnoses, conditions, medications, and other treatment information, stored on Electronic Medical Records and Network Servers. OCR investigation led to a new BA agreement and documented corrective actions by both parties.

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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

Mar 8, 2016

Filed

—

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.Confirmed26,588 affectedView incident

Name: Illinois Valley Podiatry Group
norm: illinois valley podiatry
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Illinois Valley Podiatry Group
norm: illinois valley podiatry
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 26,588nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Electronic medical recordNetwork server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; corrective action plan executed; new BA agreement with Bizmatics, Inc. obtained
Third party: via Bizmatics, Inc. (business associate server compromise)

During the incident: Breach notification submitted to HHS
Media notification issued
Substitute notice posted on covered entity website
Business associate (Bizmatics, Inc.) notified affected individuals at CE direction
New Business Associate Agreement executed with Bizmatics, Inc. with PHI safeguarding provisions
Changes made: Executed updated BA agreement with Bizmatics, Inc. covering use, disclosure, and safeguarding of PHI
OCR obtained documented assurances that corrective actions were implemented by both CE and BA
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: Mar 8, 2016
Raw hash: c3458862c8e57d26f8ae9854c94748b8ab0c3426aaefb205205df67a095af05b

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Reporting entityIllinois Valley Podiatry Group

Victim entityIllinois Valley Podiatry Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification submitted to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing