DisclosureLens
ILLINOISMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)PHIMediumContained

Surgery Group SC

bd_a97e87c9c84d0300 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 17, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

7,646

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Surgery Group SC →

Surgery Group SC (IL), a healthcare provider, reported to HHS on 2021-12-17 that its business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack affecting the PHI of 7,646 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, conditions, medications, lab results, claims information, and health insurance and other treatment information. The BA implemented additional technical safeguards and revised its policies and procedures in response.

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 17, 2021

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.Confirmed7,646 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.