SOUTH CAROLINAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPHIHighContained

Sandhills Medical Foundation

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 12, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

39,602

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Sandhills Medical Foundation →2 incidents on file

Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. reported to HHS on 2021-03-12 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 39602 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate experienced a ransomware attack resulting in the exfiltration of ePHI including names, SSNs, diagnoses, and financial data. Credit monitoring was provided.

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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

Mar 12, 2021

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_08ced65adf490ba92021-03-05 · +7dVerified
Maine State AGbd_b0a2d000ebf18e012021-03-05 · +7dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_b9653a4a741ed8362021-03-05 · +7dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_0c72529b822ca5f92021-01-01 · +70dCandidate

Name: Sandhills Medical Foundation
norm: sandhills medical
Domain: sandhillsmedical.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sandhills Medical Foundation
norm: sandhills medical
Domain: sandhillsmedical.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,602nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPHI
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Changes made: Strengthened technical safeguards to better protect ePHI
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.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Massachusetts State AG+63d

Maine State AG+63d

South Carolina State AG+63d

HHS OCR+70d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 12 (SC) — a 70-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Mar 12, 2021
Raw hash: 3d1b1167c4ca9fd1e12030bed21722fdefd19855ba7d81047e5b824d12fdd848

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySandhills Medical Foundation

Victim entitySandhills Medical Foundation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing