DisclosureLens
CONNECTICUTHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

The Dental Center of Westport

bd_df84ebe71b3bc02b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 28, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

2,175

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for The Dental Center of Westport →

Dental Center of Westport Group LLC reported to HHS on 2021-06-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2175 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 2,175 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, and claims and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its PHI.

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

Jun 28, 2021

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,175 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.