GEORGIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Healthgrades

bd_a325e9f5084ccbae · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 26, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

35,485

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Healthgrades →

Healthgrades Operating Company, Inc. reported to HHS on 2021-03-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 35,485 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of phishing, exposing ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSNs, clinical info, and health insurance.

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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

Mar 26, 2021

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.Confirmed35,485 affectedView incident

Name: Healthgrades
norm: healthgrades
Domain: resources.healthgrades.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Healthgrades
norm: healthgrades
Domain: resources.healthgrades.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 35,485nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Healthgrades Operating Company, Inc.business associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented a new email and security awareness program
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Sanctioned and retrained the employee responsible for the breach
Notified HHS
Changes made: Implemented a new email and security awareness program
Implemented additional technical safeguards
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.

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: Mar 26, 2021
Raw hash: f6352180f37fe55b29b7f9740faa02cbce29eef4e969e45641d5f3e1de776632

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Reporting entityHealthgrades

Victim entityHealthgrades

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented a new email and security awareness program

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing