COLORADOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Sterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 28, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

20,932

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Sterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC →2 incidents on file

Sterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC DBA Cordant Health Solutions (Cordant Health Solutions), a Colorado-based healthcare provider, reported to HHS OCR on 2022-04-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 20,932 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack. Breached PHI included names, dates of birth, addresses, drivers' license and Social Security numbers, claims information, lab results, diagnoses, medications, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules.

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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 28, 2022

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.Confirmed20,932 affectedView incident

Name: Sterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC
norm: sterling healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC
norm: sterling healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Sterling Healthcare Holdings, LLCdba oflegal entity
Cordant Health Solutionsdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,932nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (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 — technical assistance provided regarding HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
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 28, 2022
Raw hash: 9917aca4988b41d45b818989c013e470447445140837c08b5b3105394f41fe44

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Reporting entitySterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC

Victim entitySterling Healthcare Holdings, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing