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Columbus Cardiology Associates, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 10, 2016

To disclose

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Affected

907

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Columbus Cardiology Associates, LLC →

Cardiology Associates (MD) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-08-10 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 907 individuals. A Cardiology Associates employee emailed patients' PHI to her personal email address without a legitimate business purpose. Breached information was located in Email. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The employee was terminated and the FBI was notified. OCR reviewed the CE's risk assessment for Security Rule compliance.

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

Aug 10, 2016

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.Confirmed907 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.