NCSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICBIOMETRICHighResolved
Absolute Dental Services
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Full breach record for Absolute Dental Services →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed10,037 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Aug 21, 2023
- Raw hash
- 03504bab930b0416ec847242be16a0a92060447ebb2868e7db0ffc32e7745280
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Absolute Dental Servicesnorm: absolute dental
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Absolute Dental Servicesnorm: absolute dental
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 10,037
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICBIOMETRIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach notification submitted
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.