ARIZONASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

The Guidance Center, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 5, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

23,104

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for The Guidance Center, Inc. →2 incidents on file

The Guidance Center, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-04-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 23,104 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack compromising PHI including names, addresses, DOB, driver's licenses, SSNs, financial info, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE provided credit monitoring and identity theft services, implemented safeguards, and retrained staff.

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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

Apr 5, 2022

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.Confirmed23,104 affectedView incident

Name: The Guidance Center, Inc.
norm: the guidance center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Guidance Center, Inc.
norm: the guidance center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 23,104nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the CE
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft services to those affected
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data
Retrained staff on email security
OCR provided technical assistance to the CE
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data
Retrained staff 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: Apr 5, 2022
Raw hash: 9d2d87b6eb7b3c06b82572ddf2a3ae230d222f9eafe4dfbaab468d73e853b756

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Reporting entityThe Guidance Center, Inc.

Victim entityThe Guidance Center, Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing