DisclosureLens
ILLINOISMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Wheatland Dental Care

bd_c717a70f8f86ab5b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 24, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

955

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Wheatland Dental Care →2 incidents on file

Wheatland Dental Care reported to HHS on 2019-10-24 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 955 individuals. Breached information located on Other. The covered entity experienced a ransomware attack affecting PHI including names, dates of birth, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided substitute notice. The CE implemented additional administrative and 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

Oct 24, 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.Confirmed955 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.