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Breach notice filed by Absolute Dental Services (August 2023)

Organization named: Absolute Dental Services Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Aug. 21, 2023.

Organization as reported
Absolute Dental Services, NC
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Aug. 21, 2023
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10498, row:1637)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The business associate (BA), Absolute Dental Services, reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 10,037 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses and conditions, full face photos, and treatment information. The BA provided breach notification to the affected individuals, the media, the HHS Secretary, and posted substitute breach notice on its website. In response to the breach, the BA implemented multi-factor authentication for all email accounts, increased password complexity requirements, and implemented procedures for clients to send PHI to the BA using a secure file share or secure portal, rather than email.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 10,037 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Aug. 21, 2023, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 10498)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Absolute Dental Services Named as a service provider Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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