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CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

Simonian Sports Medicine

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 10, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,541

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Simonian Sports Medicine →

An ex-employee of a business associate (BA) impermissibly accessed the BA's website containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,541 patients of the covered entity (CE). The ePHI affected by this incident included patients’ names, dates of birth, addresses, and other identifiers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, and the BA provided breach notification to the affected individuals and the media. Following the breach, the CE changed its process for verifying patients’ insurance coverage, provided additional HIPAA training to its BAs, and documented the impermissible disclosure in the affected patients’ records for accounting of disclosure purposes. In addition, the CE revised BA agreements, policies and procedures, conducted a new annual risk analysis of its ePHI, and implemented encryption and tools to monitor internet traffic and compliance. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.

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

Sep 10, 2018

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.Confirmed1,541 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.