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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed4 filings · 4 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedcritical sensitivity
Merged incident · 4 filings

Dental Center of Northwest Ohio — August 2018 breach

Clustered 4 filings across 4 jurisdictions · filing window Dec 28, 2018 Jan 2, 2019. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

4 filings

States

4

Affected · reported

85,874

First → last filing

Dec 28, 2018 Jan 2, 2019

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_06a0abc907d34d50 · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 4 regulatory filings. The filings describe malware. Intrusion Aug 16, 2018–Sep 18, 2018, discovered Sep 1, 2018 — the first regulatory filing landed 118 days later. 85,874 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Minor, Government ID, PII, and 3 more. Notifications rolled out on a 5-day schedule across 4 filings beginning Dec 28, 2018. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Supplemental
Notification delay
118days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
5days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

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