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TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHigh

Barton Oaks Dental Group

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

May 18, 2017

To disclose

Affected

17,090

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Barton Oaks Dental Group

The covered entity (CE), Neeley-Nemeth, LLP d/b/a Barton Oaks Dental Group, reported that on March 23, 2017, it was the victim of a hacker who accessed its computer network servers and desktop computer and subsequently launched a ransomware attack. The ransomware attack encrypted protected health information (PHI), affecting 17,090 patients' records, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following the breach, the CE updated its firewall and antivirus/anti-ransomware software for all servers and other electronic devices and retrained its workforce on HIPAA. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented these voluntary corrective actions.

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

Mar 23, 2017

Begins

May 18, 2017

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGMay 18 · first
HHS OCRMay 18 · first · this page

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.