TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MinorHigh

ABCD Pediatrics, P.A.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 26, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

55,447

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for ABCD Pediatrics, P.A. →

ABCD Pediatrics, P.A. reported to HHS on 2017-03-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 55447 individuals. The breach involved a ransomware attack on its electronic health records system, encrypting protected health information (PHI) stored on a network server. The compromised data included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license information, and extensive medical details. In response, the entity closed remote access points, mandated VPN use, and enhanced password and account lockout policies. OCR provided technical assistance to improve the entity's security and notification policies.

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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

Mar 26, 2017

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.Confirmed55,447 affectedView incident

Name: ABCD Pediatrics, P.A.
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: ABCD Pediatrics, P.A.
norm: abcd pediatrics
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 55,447nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Minor
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance concerning the breach notification policies of the CE and received revised versions of those policies.The CE also revised policies regarding periodic risk analyses to update its Security Rule requirements in accordance with OCR’s technical assistance.

Changes made: Closing down remote access to terminal services and requiring workforce members to use a Virtual Private Network for remote access
Conducted audits and disabled inactive user accounts
Strengthened password requirements
Implemented account lockout policies
Implemented encryption on laptops and mobile devices
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: Mar 26, 2017
Raw hash: 30bec6434ddf82d5baf2caa70baece8df2effc134b12fe1fea217db085328007

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Reporting entityABCD Pediatrics, P.A.

Victim entityABCD Pediatrics, P.A.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseClosing down remote access to terminal services and requiring workforce members to use a Virtual Private Network for remote access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing