FEDERALMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHigh
North Atlanta Medical Clinic
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Full breach record for North Atlanta Medical Clinic →NORTH ATLANTA MEDICAL CLINIC reported to HHS on 2019-01-06 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2800 individuals. On November 8, 2018, an unauthorized third party encrypted patient electronic health records using a ransomware virus and attempted to extort the clinic. The breached information, located on a Desktop Computer, included demographic data, claims/billing information, and Social Security numbers.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,800 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Jan 6, 2019
- Raw hash
- bf812a4369da6c1c7c0dfde55dfd1cf85264fbbf89aae4d229c3bf1c6c07ca7a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- North Atlanta Medical Clinicnorm: north atlanta medical clinic
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- North Atlanta Medical Clinicnorm: north atlanta medical clinic
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 8, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,800
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided the CE with technical assistance on business associates (BAs) and BA agreements, risk analysis and risk management plans, and notification to individuals.OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Nov 8, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.