One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Nov 10, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_5a1db41b7d0b4e9a · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
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.
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
GA
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Sep 13, 2016
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Sep 13, 2016
Reported by HHS OCR filing
Vascular Surgical Associates reported to HHS on 2016-11-10 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 36496 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Unauthorized third parties gained access via an administrative account set up by its EHR vendor, installed software to hide activity, and obtained PHI including patient names, addresses, dates of birth, and health diagnoses.
Affected (this filing): 36,496
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.