Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
Regulatory clocksHIPAA✓ HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline
HHS OCRConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
23,015
Data types
3
Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID
Jurisdictions
1
FEDERAL
Linked filings
1
all HHS OCR
Sensitive data
identity_government
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Prosthetic & Orthotic Care, Inc. reported a ransomware incident to HHS on August 7, 2016, affecting 23,015 individuals. The attackers encrypted or erased patient data from a network server and demanded a $75,000 bitcoin ransom. The compromised information included names, social security numbers, and detailed protected health information.
Affected (this filing): 23,015
HHS notified
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.