HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Stokes Regional Eye Centers

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 8, 2021

Filed

Jun 23, 2022

To disclose

28 weeks

Affected

9state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Stokes Regional Eye Centers →2 incidents on file

Stokes Regional Eye Centers notified the NH AG of a third-party vendor (Eye Care Leaders) breach. Unauthorized access occurred Dec 4, 2021; Stokes discovered the outage Dec 8, 2021. Vendor deleted records. 9 NH residents notified. Data potentially included SSN, DOB, ID, PHI. No evidence of internal system compromise. Credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 4 days

discovery → filing · 28 weeks / 197 days

Dec 4, 2021

Begins

Dec 8, 2021

Discovered

Jun 23, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+17 wks slower

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

Part of Eye Care Leaders supply-chain incident (2022) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_33f2455348a05bb92022-06-17 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_96a68c71d04cf7d42022-06-17 · +6dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_b0026dee8d5a759c2022-06-17 · +6dVerified

Name: Stokes Regional Eye Centers
norm: stokes regional eye centers
Domain: stokeseye.com

Name: Stokes Regional Eye Centers
norm: stokes regional eye centers
Domain: stokeseye.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 8, 2021
Breach occurred: Dec 4, 2021
Undetected for: 4 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 17, 2022
Affected individuals: 9state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid AccountsT1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney GeneralNotifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Immediately engaged with ECL’s support team to troubleshoot the issue
Took steps to ensure patient care could continue uninterrupted
Launched an investigation
Provided written notice to nine (9) New Hampshire residents
Providing access to credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months, through Equifax
Providing impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Providing written notice of this incident to relevant state and federal regulators
Notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and prominent media pursuant to HIPAA
Changes made: Reviewing existing security policies and procedures regarding third-party vendors
Working to evaluate additional measures to further protect against similar incidents moving forward
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 weeks(197 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗

HHS OCRJun 17 · first

Montana State AGJun 17 · first

South Carolina State AGJun 17 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 17 (SC), last Jun 23 (NH) — a 6-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/stokes-regional-eye-centers-20220623.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 23, 2022
Raw hash: 1d697e8c87b2c287504f45e5b2683341376ca643811821e0c766b4cd88c1c24a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityStokes Regional Eye Centers

Victim entityStokes Regional Eye Centers

Incidentdiscovered Dec 8, 2021

Stated responseImmediately engaged with ECL’s support team to troubleshoot the issue

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov