GEORGIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 1, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

20,498

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC →

Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC reported to HHS on 2023-09-01 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing scheme) affecting 20,498 individuals. Several employees were subjects of phishing attacks, exposing PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security and driver's license numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance information, financial information, and treatment information. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, provided substitute notice, credit monitoring, and retrained staff on email security.

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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

Sep 1, 2023

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.Confirmed20,498 affectedView incident

Name: Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC
norm: georgia hand shoulder elbow
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 20,498nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (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 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Staff retrained on email security
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: Sep 1, 2023
Raw hash: 5da90290eac14e720444435b3866867e4d43c09cea7d7da908bc65f88e8421a1

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Reporting entityGeorgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC

Victim entityGeorgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow, PC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing