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MARYLANDAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Potomac Medical Aesthetics, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 1, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

2,876

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Potomac Medical Aesthetics, LLC →

Potomac Medical Aesthetics, LLC (MD) reported to HHS on 2024-11-01 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,876 individuals. An employee sent an email containing PHI — including names and email addresses — to wrong recipients. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice, established a call center, implemented additional administrative safeguards, and retrained staff on PHI protection. Breached information located in Email.

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

Nov 1, 2024

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,876 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.