PAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICMediumContained
Northeast Philadelphia Vascular Surgeons, P.C.
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Full breach record for Northeast Philadelphia Vascular Surgeons, P.C. →Northeast Philadelphia Vascular Surgeons, P.C. reported to HHS on 2019-03-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 8193 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. An unauthorized party gained access to PHI on its server and deployed a ransomware attack that encrypted some files. A third party investigation found a remote desktop login with an IP address originating from Russia. After investigation, the evidence did not find any actual opening of the files or exposure of PHI.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified≤1 day discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed8,193 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 27, 2019
- Raw hash
- afb0b3177c37f6c1ea5da6963364f9110a2c851c8b65db86bf1c1507e242b03f
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Northeast Philadelphia Vascular Surgeons, P.C.norm: northeast philadelphia vascular surgeons
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Northeast Philadelphia Vascular Surgeons, P.C.norm: northeast philadelphia vascular surgeons
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 27, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 8,193
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR reviewed the newly implemented policies and procedures on uses and disclosures of PHI and the safeguarding of sensitive dataOCR provided technical guidance leading to the option of a risk analysis
- Initial access
- external_remote_services
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- ≤1 day(0 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Mar 27, 2019→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.