MISSOURIHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumContained

Choice Rehabilitation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 29, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

4,309

Confidence

50%

Choice Rehabilitation, a business associate, reported to HHS on 2018-12-29 that employees were victims of an email phishing scheme affecting 4,309 individuals. Breached information, located in email, included names, claims information, diagnoses, and other clinical and treatment information. In response, the company implemented additional security safeguards and retrained staff.

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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

Dec 29, 2018

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.Confirmed4,309 affectedView incident

Name: Choice Rehabilitation
Domain: choicerehab.net
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Choice Rehabilitation
Domain: choicerehab.net
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,309nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
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: Dec 29, 2018
Raw hash: f33fbb3dc5756a6a9aa4dedbfeeeca84561a3438f6971c8de0eed253a567fce6

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Reporting entityChoice Rehabilitation

Victim entityChoice Rehabilitation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing