ARKANSASHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Health (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

ENT and Allergy Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 31, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

16,200

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for ENT and Allergy Center →

Hackers attacked the servers of business associate Bizmatics, resulting in unauthorized access to the electronic medical records of approximately 16,200 patients of ENT and Allergy Center. The breach was reported to HHS on 2016-05-31. The compromised information included patient demographic and clinical data. OCR opened an investigation into the covered entity regarding its business associate agreement and a separate investigation into the business associate, Bizmatics.

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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 31, 2016

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.Confirmed16,200 affectedView incident

Name: ENT and Allergy Center
norm: ent and allergy center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: ENT and Allergy Center
norm: ent and allergy center
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16,200nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR opened an investigation of the CE to determine if the CE complied with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules with respect to business associate contracts.OCR initiated a separate investigation of Bizmatics.

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: May 31, 2016
Raw hash: ab8b5aa536be9acda8c4ee3683079415b0054b51998b20472e001d52983e429b

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Reporting entityENT and Allergy Center

Victim entityENT and Allergy Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing