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MARYLANDMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Takai, Hoover, and Hsu, P.A.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 29, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

16,542

Confidence

96%
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Takai, Hoover, and Hsu, P.A. (Maryland healthcare provider) reported to HHS on 2019-05-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 16,542 individuals. The Montgomery County Police Department informed the practice that an employee was a person of interest in a fraud investigation and may have used patient PHI in fraudulent activities. Breached information on Desktop Computer and Electronic Medical Record included names, addresses, birthdates, and financial information. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and implemented additional technical safeguards.

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 29, 2019

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.Confirmed16,542 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.