COLORADOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Boulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 29, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

21,450

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Boulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates →

Boulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates reported to HHS on 2021-11-29 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 21,450 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack which affected the protected health information (PHI) of 21,450 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE closed its business; the investigation was subsequently closed.

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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

Nov 29, 2021

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 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_a4f5395f3b6e85482021-12-02 · +3dVerified
Montana State AGbd_5c38e2e8db59427d2021-11-24 · +5dCandidate

Name: Boulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates
norm: boulder neurosurgical and spine associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Boulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates
norm: boulder neurosurgical and spine associates
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 21,450nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported to HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: The investigation was subsequently closed
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 AGNov 24 · first

HHS OCR+5d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+8d

Pattern: first filing Nov 24 (MT), last Dec 2 (NH) — a 8-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: Nov 29, 2021
Raw hash: a509392ee1c2af35063077f7e0da5c9c0e211ce4d21e5332c0c2c4f5ec56741d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBoulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates

Victim entityBoulder Neurosurgical and Spine Associates

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe investigation was subsequently closed

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing