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OKLAHOMAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighContained

Sylvester Eye Care

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 27, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

19,377

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Sylvester Eye Care →

Sylvester Eye Care (OK) reported to HHS on 2022-05-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 19,377 individuals. The covered entity's business associate experienced a ransomware attack that encrypted PHI stored in Electronic Medical Records. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, lab results, medications, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided substitute notice. The BA offered complimentary credit monitoring. OCR provided technical assistance on the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

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

May 27, 2022

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed19,377 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.