GEORGIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 10, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

16,819

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Cancer Treatment Centers of America →7 incidents on file

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Southeastern Regional Medical Center (GA) reported to HHS OCR on 2019-05-10 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 16,819 individuals. Several employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI including names, Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, financial information, health insurance information, and clinical information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional technical safeguards and employee retraining. OCR 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

May 10, 2019

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_1ca373962cb4dd112019-05-10Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_d32cb69426d4bec82019-05-12 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4b2273328be2fcbe2019-05-13 · +3dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_2439022dedecb8ad2019-05-21 · +11dVerified

Name: Cancer Treatment Centers of America
norm: cancer treatment centers of america
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Cancer Treatment Centers of America
norm: cancer treatment centers of america
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16,819nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (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 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action assurances obtained
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notice on website
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained employees on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional technical safeguards implemented
Employee retraining on phishing awareness
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 · 5 filings · 5 states

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Montana State AGMay 10 · first

HHS OCRMay 10 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+2d

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+11d

Pattern: first filing May 10 (MT), last May 21 (OR) — a 11-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 10, 2019
Raw hash: c0257f12c97c11bc002c162fb3713ff1f941f5ef2ba34c2ee744a97ed23f2852

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCancer Treatment Centers of America

Victim entityCancer Treatment Centers of America

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing