PENNSYLVANIAHackingHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 15, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

1,085

Confidence

92%

Full breach record for Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc. →

Pinnacle Health Systems reported to HHS on 2010-12-15 that its business associate, Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc. (PA), suffered a network server compromise that allowed patient medical reports to be viewed online. The breach affected 1,085 individuals. PHI exposed included names, Medicaid ID numbers, dates of birth, and primary physicians. The covered entity terminated its BA relationship, engaged a replacement transcription service, and contracted forensic consultants to remove all exposed records and identify the root cause.

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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

Dec 15, 2010

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.Confirmed1,085 affectedView incident

Name: Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.
norm: gair medical transcription

Name: Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.
norm: gair medical transcription
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,085nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Gair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.business associate
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Took steps to enforce requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Engaged forensic consultants
Changes made: Covered entity discontinued relationship with the business associate
Engaged replacement medical transcription service
Contracted forensic consultants to identify root cause
Ensured all breached medical reports were removed from online and made inaccessible
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: Dec 15, 2010
Raw hash: 8fa2cadb343eaa516a4219d6e291bcf669d9769ef408160b52b5f014300ff420

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Reporting entityGair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.

Victim entityGair Medical Transcription Services, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTook steps to enforce requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing