VIRGINIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHighContained

Grohler Hearing Aid Center, INC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 28, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

5,272

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Grohler Hearing Aid Center, INC →

Grohler Hearing Aid Center, INC DBA Beltone Hearing Aid Centers reported to HHS on 2023-04-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5272 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were subjects of an email phishing scheme affecting PHI including names, SSNs, addresses, driver's license numbers, DOBs, financial and claims information, and treatment information.

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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

Apr 28, 2023

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.Confirmed5,272 affectedView incident

Name: Grohler Hearing Aid Center, INC
norm: grohler hearing aid center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Grohler Hearing Aid Center, INC
norm: grohler hearing aid center
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Grohler Hearing Aid Center, INCdba oflegal entity
Beltone Hearing Aid Centersdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,272nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security precautions
Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security precautions
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: Apr 28, 2023
Raw hash: 6b622422d5138ec4ed56499196acd7690a643b72948edaa5e5d9e88bf1ca4527

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Reporting entityGrohler Hearing Aid Center, INC

Victim entityGrohler Hearing Aid Center, INC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing