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HackingHealthcareHealthcareVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowContained

Sutter Buttes Imaging Medical Group, Inc.

bd_994b92bf72ea98e8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Dec 1, 2020

Filed

Feb 9, 2021

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Sutter Buttes Imaging Medical Group, Inc.

Sutter Buttes Imaging Medical Group, Inc. disclosed that third-party IT hardware vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized access to patient information between July 2019 and December 2020. The organization learned of the incident in December 2020. Affected data included patient names, dates of birth, study dates, and procedure types, but excluded SSNs, credit cards, and medical diagnoses. The company closed firewall ports and engaged third-party consultants to bolster security.

Incident timeline

undetected · 519 days
discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 70 days

Jul 1, 2019

Begins

Dec 1, 2020

Discovered

Feb 9, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

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.