FEDERALHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMedium
ENT and Allergy Center
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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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed16,200 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- ENT and Allergy Centernorm: ent and allergy center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- ENT and Allergy Centernorm: ent and allergy center
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 16,200
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- 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
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.