DisclosureLens
HackingHealthcareHealthcareHacking OtherIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Advocates

bd_0ad63238657fc299 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Dec 6, 2021

Filed

Jan 3, 2022

To disclose

28 days

Affected

68,236scope not determined

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Advocates5 incidents on file

Advocates, Inc., a healthcare organization, reported a data breach affecting 68,236 Maine residents. The breach, an external system breach (hacking), occurred on September 14, 2021, and was discovered on December 6, 2021. The compromised information included names and Social Security numbers. In response, Advocates, Inc. offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through IDX.

Incident timeline

undetected · 83 days
discovery → filing · 28 days

Sep 14, 2021

Begins

Dec 6, 2021

Discovered

Jan 3, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 18d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGJan 1 · first
Maine State AG+2d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jan 21 (MA) — a 20-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.