TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Roy Varughese, M.D.
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Full breach record for Roy Varughese, M.D. →Roy Varughese, M.D. (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-12-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2,916 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that compromised patient PHI stored in email. The CE subsequently provided documentation that it was no longer a business entity, and OCR determined it lacked jurisdiction to investigate further. Business associate: not present.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,916 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 1, 2021
- Raw hash
- 80c8885b8141ed6b9994718fd2dacc5e11b550e464ef821377a1e26d8ece9c00
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Roy Varughese, M.D.norm: roy varughese md
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Roy Varughese, M.D.norm: roy varughese md
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,916
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR determined no jurisdiction to investigate further after CE provided documentation it was no longer a business entity.
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.