MONTANASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Northern Rockies Orthopaedics

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 17, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

6,701

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

97%

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Northern Rockies Orthopaedics (MT) reported to HHS on 2022-05-17 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 6,701 individuals. An employee was subject to a phishing attack via email. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license and Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, offered identity protection services, and implemented additional safeguards and staff retraining. Location of breached information: Email.

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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

May 17, 2022

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_2c4bdf7b6de342172022-05-17Verified
Indiana State AGbd_95df0bb50258ad902022-05-12 · +5dVerified

Name: Northern Rockies Orthopaedics
Domain: tetonortho.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Northern Rockies Orthopaedics
norm: northern rockies orthopaedics
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,701nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (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 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media
Posted substitute notice on website
Provided complimentary identity protection services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on PHI protection
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Staff retrained to better protect PHI
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 · 3 filings · 2 states

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Indiana State AGMay 12 · first

Montana State AG+5d

HHS OCR+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 12 (IN), last May 17 (MT) — a 5-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: May 17, 2022
Raw hash: 6818d28bf66277b5ff6c100c1bba5d1b540fc7e040f6f2f4bd0ac75ebd267f9b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorthern Rockies Orthopaedics

Victim entityNorthern Rockies Orthopaedics

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing