NORTH CAROLINAHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Medium

Appalachian Gastroenterology

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 10, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

11,000

Confidence

75%

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Appalachian Gastroenterology, P.A. reported to HHS on 2016-12-10 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 11000 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. OCR learned after opening the case that the organization is not a covered entity.

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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 10, 2016

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.Confirmed11,000 affectedView incident

Name: Appalachian Gastroenterology
norm: appalachian gastroenterology
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Appalachian Gastroenterology
norm: appalachian gastroenterology
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 11,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External

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 10, 2016
Raw hash: e5df33aa0ebba6aeb4ccf18a01b78f127288ea016000c1fd968500c4d6e202e5

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Reporting entityAppalachian Gastroenterology

Victim entityAppalachian Gastroenterology

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing