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Buffalo Heart Group

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 28, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

567

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Buffalo Heart Group →

Buffalo Heart Group (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-05-28 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure breach affecting 567 individuals. A staff physician shared her password with a third party, who then remotely accessed the covered entity's EMR system. Breached ePHI included names, dates of birth, addresses, demographic and clinical information. OCR investigated and provided substantial technical assistance, requiring the CE to implement a risk analysis, risk management plan, security training, audit controls, and regular activity reviews.

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 28, 2015

Filed

—

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.Confirmed567 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.