DisclosureLens
NORTH CAROLINASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Buffalo Ambulatory Surgery Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 31, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

18,479

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Buffalo Ambulatory Surgery Center →2 incidents on file

Gateway Ambulatory Surgery Center reported to HHS on 2022-10-31 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 18,479 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were subjects of an email phishing scheme compromising PHI including names, DOB, addresses, SSNs, and treatment info. CE provided credit monitoring, strengthened safeguards, and retrained staff.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 31, 2022

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.Confirmed18,479 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.