OHIOMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Ransom DemandedData EncryptedData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Dental Center of Northwest Ohio

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 28, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

85,874

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Dental Center of Northwest Ohio →

Dental Center of Northwest Ohio reported to HHS on 2018-12-28 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware) affecting 85,874 individuals. The covered entity's business associate was the subject of a ransomware attack. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers' license and Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. Breached information located on Network Server. The CE ceased operations during OCR's investigation.

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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 28, 2018

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_751eccc5856a8d4e2018-12-28Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c4226d5ff187b3432018-12-28Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_74a3004a1bf1b1272019-01-02 · +5dVerified

Name: Dental Center of Northwest Ohio
norm: dental center of northwest ohio
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Dental Center of Northwest Ohio
norm: dental center of northwest ohio
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 85,874nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; CE ceased operations during investigation

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGDec 28 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 28 · first

HHS OCRDec 28 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Dec 28 (MT), last Jan 2 (NH) — a 5-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://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 28, 2018
Raw hash: f5ae3f28f1ad77d8e904d7f4c0571341c0cf6776b86eaead88bfeae84c8e68e9

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDental Center of Northwest Ohio

Victim entityDental Center of Northwest Ohio

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing