ARIZONASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, P.C.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 2, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

5,509

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, P.C. →2 incidents on file

Arizona Arthritis and Rheumatology Associates, P.C. (AZ) reported to HHS on 2025-05-02 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5,509 individuals. Several employees were subjects of an email phishing attack exposing PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, claims information, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided substitute notice, offered credit monitoring, and implemented additional safeguards and workforce retraining.

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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

May 2, 2025

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.Confirmed5,509 affectedView incident

Name: Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, P.C.
norm: arthritis and rheumatism associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, P.C.
norm: arthritis and rheumatism associates
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,509nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
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 to affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Workforce retraining on PHI protection
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: May 2, 2025
Raw hash: 9463d4d4b5eabb6496f65307fc454197b8ffab2ea810be3ca7c17b70e989f0aa

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Reporting entityArthritis and Rheumatism Associates, P.C.

Victim entityArthritis and Rheumatism Associates, P.C.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing