DisclosureLens
NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)BiometricHighResolved

Absolute Dental Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 21, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

10,037

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Absolute Dental Services →3 incidents on file

Absolute Dental Services (NC), a business associate, reported to HHS OCR on 2023-08-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 10,037 individuals. An employee fell victim to an email phishing scheme, compromising PHI including names, dates of birth, diagnoses and conditions, full face photos, and treatment information stored in email. In response, the BA implemented MFA for all email accounts, increased password complexity, and established secure file-share/portal procedures for PHI transmission.

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

Aug 21, 2023

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.Confirmed10,037 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.