MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Stokes Regional Eye Centers

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 8, 2021

Filed

Jun 17, 2022

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

7state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Stokes Regional Eye Centers →2 incidents on file

Stokes Regional Eye Centers notified Montana residents of a breach at third-party vendor Eye Care Leaders (ECL). ECL's EMR system was accessed by an unauthorized actor on Dec 4, 2021, who deleted records. Stokes discovered the outage on Dec 8, 2021. Patient data (PII, PHI, SSN) may have been accessed. Stokes offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 191 days

Dec 4, 2021

Begins

Dec 8, 2021

Discovered

Jun 17, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Eye Care Leaders supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_33f2455348a05bb92022-06-17Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_b0026dee8d5a759c2022-06-17Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_f0fc2ffcaef47e342022-06-23 · +6dVerified

Name: Stokes Regional Eye Centers
norm: stokes regional eye centers
Domain: stokeseye.com

Name: Stokes Regional Eye Centers
norm: stokes regional eye centers
Domain: stokeseye.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 8, 2021
Breach occurred: Dec 4, 2021
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Third party: via Eye Care Leaders
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Immediately launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident
Offering credit monitoring and identity theft protection services for <<CM Length>> through Equifax
Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Changes made: Reviewing existing security policies and procedures regarding our third-party vendors
Working to evaluate additional measures to further protect against similar incidents moving forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(191 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

HHS OCRJun 17 · first

South Carolina State AGJun 17 · first

Montana State AGJun 17 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Jun 17 (SC), last Jun 23 (NH) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-143.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 17, 2022
Raw hash: e59ba2556c244da35f95d72ea687a1696b184f7b6f60b867f59bc45b5a5a1d78

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStokes Regional Eye Centers

Victim entityStokes Regional Eye Centers

Incidentdiscovered Dec 8, 2021

Stated responseImmediately launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov