DisclosureLens
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.

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

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.Confirmed6,237 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.