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NORTH CAROLINAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

UNCG Speech and Hearing Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 9, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

2,300

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for UNCG Speech and Hearing Center →

UNCG Speech and Hearing Center reported to HHS on 2010-08-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2300 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer. Computer malware was detected on the covered entity’s unencrypted billing software program, “Therapist Helper.” The CE did not know when the malware entered its system. Approximately 2,300 individuals were potentially affected by this malware virus. The types of protected health information (PHI) involved included demographic, financial (claims information), and clinical information (diagnoses/conditions, medications, lab results, and other treatment information).

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

Aug 9, 2010

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,300 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.