HackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)MinorMediumContained

Advantage Consolidated, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 26, 2015

Filed

Mar 23, 2015

To disclose

25 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Advantage Consolidated, LLC →

Advantage Consolidated LLC notified patients that an unauthorized person accessed a dental database between February 23 and February 26, 2015. The company discovered the illegal access on February 26, 2015, after a security review showed abnormal activity. Affected data may include names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The company engaged law enforcement and offered two years of complimentary identity protection services through Experian.

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California clockDiscovered Feb 26, 2015 → Notified Mar 18, 201520d ✓ CA 60-day OK25 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 25 days

Feb 23, 2015

Begins

Feb 26, 2015

Discovered

Mar 23, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_97cd32f3f42f838b2015-03-18 · +5dCandidate

Name: Advantage Consolidated, LLC
norm: advantage consolidated

Name: Advantage Consolidated, LLC
norm: advantage consolidated
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Feb 26, 2015
Breach occurred: Feb 23, 2015 – Feb 26, 2015
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 18, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Working with law enforcement to investigate

During the incident: Reacted as soon as possible
Working with law enforcement to investigate
Looking at how we protect our systems
Maintaining the necessary safeguards to protect against improper access
Made changes to further defend against these attacks
Engaged Experian to offer complimentary Fraud Resolution and identity protection for two years
Changes made: Looking at how we protect our systems
Maintaining the necessary safeguards to protect against improper access
Made changes to further defend against these attacks
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 days(25 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 20d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Feb 26, 2015
→ Notified: Mar 18, 2015
20d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Feb 26, 2015 → Notified: Mar 18, 2015	20d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRMar 18 · first

California State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 18 (OR), last Mar 23 (CA) — a 5-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-48988
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 23, 2015
Raw hash: 82dd18e246f5d54df46e6c75684e1880bd396bbe83d8a0c450bde30442d891ba

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAdvantage Consolidated, LLC

Victim entityAdvantage Consolidated, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Feb 26, 2015

Stated responseReacted as soon as possible

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov