GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

Thomasville Eye Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 28, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

10,891

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

97%

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Thomasville Eye Center (GA) reported to HHS on 2016-09-28 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 10,891 individuals. An employee accessed patient records on a Desktop Computer without authorization and opened a fraudulent credit account for at least one patient. The employee accessed records of 11,137 individuals during employment, exposing names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and billing information. The employee was terminated and law enforcement (local and FBI) was notified. Corrective actions included employee retraining and revised access-control policies.

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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

Sep 28, 2016

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 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_4eae573bdd306b902016-09-28Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_1a5cfb546e698e122016-10-04 · +6dVerified

Name: Thomasville Eye Center
norm: thomasville eye center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Thomasville Eye Center
norm: thomasville eye center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10,891nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notifiedOCR obtained assurances of corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification to HHS
Breach notification to affected individuals
Breach notification to media
Breach notification posted on entity website
Changes made: Terminated employee involved
Retrained employees
Revised policies and procedures to limit employee access to protected information
Notified local law enforcement
Notified the FBI
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGSep 28 · first

HHS OCRSep 28 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Sep 28 (MT), last Oct 4 (SC) — 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://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: Sep 28, 2016
Raw hash: bc9fc4536e26949c3bdeda58213bfa21ec95c328231b6f1cab70fca333c29b80

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThomasville Eye Center

Victim entityThomasville Eye Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing