INDIANASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMinorHighResolved

Weddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

5,356

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Weddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC →

Weddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC (Indiana) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-12-08 a Hacking/IT Incident — email phishing — affecting 5,356 individuals. An employee was the victim of a phishing attack that exposed PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment and financial information. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards.

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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

Dec 8, 2021

Filed

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

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_3677b82eab3fb3ee2021-12-08Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_3d39fb7b7a57a5922021-12-08Verified

Name: Weddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC
norm: weddell pediatric dental specialists
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Weddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC
norm: weddell pediatric dental specialists
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,356nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMinor
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
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative and technical safeguards implemented
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGDec 8 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 8 · first

HHS OCRDec 8 · first · this page

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: Dec 8, 2021
Raw hash: 715ebb7868bf61202689063d6e953e7d91ba46766644e9082c60047f65ab7026

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWeddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC

Victim entityWeddell Pediatric Dental Specialists, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

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