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NORTH CAROLINAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Carter and Hoff Dentistry

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 1, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

7,000

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Carter and Hoff Dentistry →

Carter and Hoff Dentistry (NC) reported to HHS on 2020-07-01 a ransomware attack affecting PHI of 7,000 individuals. Breached information located on a Network Server. PHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license numbers, Social Security numbers, x-rays, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice on its website, and implemented additional safeguards and HIPAA training.

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

Jul 1, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7,000 affectedView 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.