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Cornerstone Foot & Ankle

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 16, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

533

Confidence

96%

Cornerstone Foot & Ankle (NJ) reported to HHS on 2018-04-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 533 individuals. A former staff member sent spreadsheets containing PHI — including names, insurance information, claims data, dates of treatment, and CPT codes — to her personal email account. The CE notified HHS, all affected individuals, and the media. Remediation included mandatory outgoing email encryption, a notarized deletion statement from the former employee, and staff retraining. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action. Breached information located on 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

Apr 16, 2018

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.Confirmed533 affectedView incident

Name: Cornerstone Foot & Ankle
Domain: asafoot.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Cornerstone Foot & Ankle
Domain: asafoot.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 533nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action assurances obtained
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Internal investigation including full enterprise-wide audit
Implemented mandatory encryption on all outgoing emails
Obtained signed and notarized statement from former employee confirming deletion of PHI
Retrained staff on HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Changes made: Mandatory email encryption enforced enterprise-wide
Staff retraining on Privacy and Security Rules
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: Apr 16, 2018
Raw hash: c5e381dcf8b59d413cbef1d1b88fd48c2e8cc26e5fcdc2bb8d9004ef542dad25

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Reporting entityCornerstone Foot & Ankle

Victim entityCornerstone Foot & Ankle

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseInternal investigation including full enterprise-wide audit

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing