MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountCriticalContained

Stokes Regional Eye Centers

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

Dec 8, 2021

Filed

Jun 17, 2022

To disclose

27 weeks

Affected

259,527state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Stokes Regional Eye Centers →2 incidents on file

Stokes Regional Eye Centers notified patients of a breach at third-party vendor Eye Care Leaders (ECL), which manages their EMR system. An unauthorized actor accessed ECL's systems on Dec 4, 2021, deleting records. Stokes discovered the outage on Dec 8, 2021. Patient data potentially exposed includes names, SSNs, DOB, government IDs, medical info, and billing data. Stokes offered credit monitoring and is reviewing vendor security policies.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due27 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 27 weeks / 191 days

Dec 4, 2021

Begins

Dec 8, 2021

Discovered

Jun 17, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+16 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Eye Care Leaders supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_33f2455348a05bb92022-06-17Verified
Montana State AGbd_96a68c71d04cf7d42022-06-17Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_f0fc2ffcaef47e342022-06-23 · +6dVerified

Name: Stokes Regional Eye Centers
norm: stokes regional eye centers
Domain: stokeseye.com

Name: Stokes Regional Eye Centers
norm: stokes regional eye centers
Domain: stokeseye.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 8, 2021
Breach occurred: Dec 4, 2021
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 20, 2022
Affected individuals: 259,527state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state and federal regulators
Third party: via Eye Care Leaders
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Immediately launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident
Engaged with ECL's support team to troubleshoot the issue
Took steps to ensure patient care could continue uninterrupted
Reviewing existing security policies and procedures regarding third-party vendors
Evaluating additional measures to further protect against similar incidents
Notifying state and federal regulators
Offering credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Equifax
Changes made: Reviewing existing security policies and procedures regarding third-party vendors
Evaluating additional measures to further protect against similar incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 weeks(191 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

HHS OCRJun 17 · first

Montana State AGJun 17 · first

South Carolina State AGJun 17 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Jun 17 (SC), last Jun 23 (NH) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2022/StokesRegionalEyeCenters.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 17, 2022
Raw hash: 0618ce40909e30d6c837b51a06bfad9c7c91ae2b7141593c99c79fd35110f2f0

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStokes Regional Eye Centers

Victim entityStokes Regional Eye Centers

Incidentdiscovered Dec 8, 2021

Stated responseImmediately launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov