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Summit Eye & Optical

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 1, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

5,727

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Summit Eye & Optical →

Summit Eye & Optical (NJ) reported to HHS on 2023-05-01 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware attack) affecting 5,727 individuals. Breached information located on a Network Server. PHI involved included diagnoses and potentially Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice, provided identity monitoring services, implemented additional safeguards, and retrained staff.

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

May 1, 2023

Filed

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

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRMay 1 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing May 1 (NJ), last Jun 7 (ME) — a 37-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.