VIRGINIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Hospice of the Piedmont

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 2, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

10,682

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Hospice of the Piedmont →

Hospice of the Piedmont (VA) reported to HHS on 2021-08-02 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 10,682 individuals. Several employees were victims of an email phishing scheme exposing PHI located in Email systems. Compromised data included SSNs, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, financial and health insurance information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE offered free credit monitoring, implemented additional safeguards, and retrained staff on identifying fraudulent emails.

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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

Aug 2, 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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_a957f61a5869c79f2021-08-03 · +1dVerified

Name: Hospice of the Piedmont
norm: hospice of the piedmont
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Hospice of the Piedmont
norm: hospice of the piedmont
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10,682nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (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: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided substitute notice
Offered free credit monitoring to affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained workforce members on identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Workforce retraining on phishing identification
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRAug 2 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

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: Aug 2, 2021
Raw hash: 0534090c59553d07c7f9ca80f577cd6ef292d1db91ddaecbb2d465f82ef427ec

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHospice of the Piedmont

Victim entityHospice of the Piedmont

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing