CALIFORNIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPIIHighResolved

National Ambulatory Hernia Institute

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 5, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

15,974

Confidence

97%

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National Ambulatory Hernia Institute (CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-10-05 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware attack) affecting 15,974 individuals. Breached ePHI resided on a Network Server and included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, claims and financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted a substitute notice. OCR provided technical assistance and obtained corrective action assurances.

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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

Oct 5, 2018

Filed

—

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.Confirmed15,974 affectedView incident

Name: National Ambulatory Hernia Institute
norm: national ambulatory hernia institute
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: National Ambulatory Hernia Institute
norm: national ambulatory hernia institute
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 15,974nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPII
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notifiedOCR provided technical assistance and obtained corrective action assurances

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Provided toll-free number for questions
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards
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: Oct 5, 2018
Raw hash: 85920afc3891a16cc467154d6e5b1a2c2158b2b95aad61577ff65a798f52b931

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Reporting entityNational Ambulatory Hernia Institute

Victim entityNational Ambulatory Hernia Institute

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing