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A Step Ahead Foot & Ankle Center

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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.

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.Confirmed533 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: Apr 16, 2018
Raw hash: c5e381dcf8b59d413cbef1d1b88fd48c2e8cc26e5fcdc2bb8d9004ef542dad25

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: A Step Ahead Foot & Ankle Center
norm: a step ahead foot ankle center
Domain: asafoot.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: A Step Ahead Foot & Ankle Center
norm: a step ahead foot ankle center
Domain: asafoot.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 533
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
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

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

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.