CALIFORNIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Ascend Clinical, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 19, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

77,443

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Ascend Clinical, LLC →

Ascend Clinical, LLC (a California healthcare provider) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-10-19 that an email phishing attack compromising numerous employee mailboxes exposed the ePHI of 77,443 individuals. Exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, lab results, and prescribed medications. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; offered free credit monitoring, identity theft, and fraud protection services; and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards along with staff retraining.

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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

Oct 19, 2020

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_6882f24b5e369f8a2020-10-23 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_43c5891ca65999ef2020-10-26 · +7dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_6f928c60b9b634a02020-10-26 · +7dVerified
Washington State AGbd_80d721f819ea5e742020-10-27 · +8dVerified

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Oregon State AGbd_affdc1609c7f455a2020-10-27 · +8dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_0c3f5760dbb44d4b2020-10-29 · +10dVerified by operator
South Carolina State AGbd_36cb93c68b6198c62020-11-03 · +15dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_9b91d1eadde4c40b2020-11-03 · +15dVerified
Montana State AGbd_31fe7e79e05ba1e32020-08-19 · +61dCandidate

Name: Ascend Clinical, LLC
norm: ascend clinical
Domain: labcheck5.com

Name: Ascend Clinical, LLC
norm: ascend clinical
Domain: labcheck5.com
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 77,443nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided free credit monitoring, identity theft, and fraud protection services
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff
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.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 9 states

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Montana State AGAug 19 · first

HHS OCR+61d · this page

Maine State AG+65d

California State AG+68d

New Hampshire State AG+68d

Washington State AG+69d

Oregon State AG+69d

Massachusetts State AG+71d

South Carolina State AG+76d

Indiana State AG+76d

Pattern: first filing Aug 19 (MT), last Nov 3 (IN) — a 76-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://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: Oct 19, 2020
Raw hash: ab60472e05dec6d2ee407221d10fa5d6af59844ad855f338bf69d423f3330bf5

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAscend Clinical, LLC

Victim entityAscend Clinical, LLC

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing