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MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Sandhills Medical Foundation

bd_b9653a4a741ed836 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 8, 2021

Filed

Mar 5, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

38,751state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Sandhills Medical Foundation2 incidents on file

Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. notified South Carolina residents of a data breach involving a third-party data storage vendor. Hackers accessed the vendor's system between September 23, 2020, and December 3, 2020, encrypting data and demanding a ransom. The vendor paid the ransom and recovered the data. Affected information included names, dates of birth, addresses, driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, and claims information. Sandhills offered 90 days of identity theft protection via CyberScout.

South Carolina clock SC CRA notice due8 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 · 107 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Sep 23, 2020

Begins

Jan 8, 2021

Discovered

Mar 5, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
South Carolina State AG+63d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 12 (SC) — a 70-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.