DisclosureLens
HackingIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

Essen Medical Associates, PC

bd_e79e9c13d375be37 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 17, 2023

Filed

Dec 29, 2023

To disclose

41 weeks

Affected

11state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Essen Medical Associates, PC

Essen Medical Associates, P.C. notified patients of unauthorized access to systems between March 14-22, 2023. The electronic health record system was not affected. Personal information (names) was accessed. Essen contained the incident, engaged third-party cybersecurity specialists, notified law enforcement and HHS, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days
discovery → filing · 41 weeks / 287 days

Mar 14, 2023

Begins

Mar 17, 2023

Discovered

Dec 29, 2023

Filed

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRMay 16 · first
Montana State AG+227d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 16 (NY), last Dec 29 (MT) — a 227-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.