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Buffalo Heart Group
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed567 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- May 28, 2015
- Raw hash
- 3b3705dd15affb5b234e33668d8543b330db4b2e37aa32dcdd2b8df1fd6bdd45
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Buffalo Heart Groupnorm: buffalo heart
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Buffalo Heart Groupnorm: buffalo heart
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 567
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation resulting in substantial technical assistance
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.