DisclosureLens
HackingHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Perry Johnson & Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 2, 2023

Filed

Nov 3, 2023

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

63%
Full breach record for Perry Johnson & Associates

Perry Johnson & Associates, Inc. (PJ&A), a healthcare transcription service provider and HIPAA business associate, experienced unauthorized access to personal health information (PHI) between April 7 and April 19, 2023. The incident was discovered on May 2, 2023. Affected data included names, dates of birth, addresses, medical record numbers, diagnoses, and potentially Social Security numbers and clinical information. PJ&A engaged external cybersecurity vendors, notified law enforcement and HHS, and implemented technical restrictions and password resets. No evidence of identity theft or fraud was identified at the time of notification.

Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days
discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 185 days

Apr 7, 2023

Begins

May 2, 2023

Discovered

Nov 3, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+14 wks slower

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 98d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRNov 3 · first
Montana State AGNov 3 · first
Oregon State AGNov 3 · first
California State AGNov 3 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 3 (MA), last Feb 9 (MA) — a 98-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.