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TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Austin Perio Health

bd_dcfaf4af1eedecab · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 17, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

4,339

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Austin Perio Health →

Austin Perio Health (TX) reported to HHS on 2021-11-17 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 4,339 individuals. An employee was the victim of a phishing attack that exposed PHI including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers' license numbers, health insurance information, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided credit monitoring. In response, additional technical safeguards were implemented and staff were retrained on email security. Breached information was located in Email.

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 17, 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.Confirmed4,339 affectedView incident

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.