FEDERALMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMedium
Bluetail Medical Group
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Full breach record for Bluetail Medical Group →Bluetail Medical Group reported to HHS on 2017-08-02 a ransomware incident affecting 11000 individuals. The attack, discovered on August 1, 2017, involved ransomware encrypting a desktop computer containing patient x-ray images, names, and dates of birth. The attackers demanded a bitcoin payment for the decryption key.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified≤1 day discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11,000 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
- Aug 2, 2017
- Raw hash
- 70ae761548d20ba48c5e71ffe60d8b1e17c1c79b461612eaa1666c1fce99c571
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Bluetail Medical Groupnorm: bluetail medical
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Bluetail Medical Groupnorm: bluetail medical
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 1, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 11,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented corrective action steps.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- ≤1 day(1 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Aug 1, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.