PENNSYLVANIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 1, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

6,237

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC →

Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC (Healthcare Provider, PA) reported to HHS on 2021-10-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 6,237 individuals. Employees of the covered entity's business associate were victims of an email phishing attack that compromised PHI, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and claims/treatment information. Breached information was located on Email. The BA strengthened safeguards and retrained staff on email security in response.

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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

Oct 1, 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.Confirmed6,237 affectedView incident

Name: Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC
norm: professional dental alliance of connecticut
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC
norm: professional dental alliance of connecticut
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,237nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCR
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice on website
Established call center for questions or concerns
Business associate strengthened administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Business associate retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Strengthened administrative, technical, and security safeguards at the BA
Retraining of BA staff on email security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: Oct 1, 2021
Raw hash: f3530b1c33bad301ad457d69348e6ddf3c0376f88931c2bf237fc2ac8fd4e9bb

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Reporting entityProfessional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC

Victim entityProfessional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, PLLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing