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

Cornerstone Care, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 25, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

12,081

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Cornerstone Care, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Cornerstone Care, Inc. (PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-02-25 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 12,081 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme, exposing ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email systems. The covered entity implemented additional safeguards and retrained staff on identifying fraudulent email communications.

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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

Feb 25, 2021

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_754c280e04a70fb02021-02-25Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_3e4e32a736f6e27e2021-03-02 · +5dVerified

Name: Cornerstone Care, Inc.
norm: cornerstone care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Cornerstone Care, Inc.
norm: cornerstone care
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 12,081nationwide
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
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members on identifying and responding to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards implemented
Employee phishing awareness retraining conducted
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.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Maine State AGFeb 25 · first

HHS OCRFeb 25 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Feb 25 (ME), last Mar 2 (MA) — a 5-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://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: Feb 25, 2021
Raw hash: ae2e9dbbc20ea00031af4791becbcceab2c6df80ad197177d50bb5a46d30788a

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCornerstone Care, Inc.

Victim entityCornerstone Care, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing