CONNECTICUTSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighContained

Eastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 3, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

5,978

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Eastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C. →

Eastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C. reported to HHS on 2021-09-03 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 5,978 individuals. Multiple employees of its business associate were victims of the phishing attack. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial and health insurance information, and prescription/clinical information. Breached information located on Email.

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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

Sep 3, 2021

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.Confirmed5,978 affectedView incident

Name: Eastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C.
norm: eastern connecticut pathology consultants
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Eastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C.
norm: eastern connecticut pathology consultants
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,978nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSProvided substitute noticeNotified the media
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
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: Sep 3, 2021
Raw hash: 4e8d11e2c13b721f32bbd8f5316ec8896de30c31e3043c92cad2499fb7a84c0f

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Reporting entityEastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C.

Victim entityEastern Connecticut Pathology Consultants, P.C.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing