DisclosureLens
MICHIGANHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Area IV Agency

bd_22a1e2e2e351afd4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 29, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

3,171

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Area IV Agency →

Region IV Area Agency on Aging reported to HHS on 2021-11-29 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3171 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was targeted by a phishing scheme exposing PHI, including names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, DOBs, financial info, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, and implemented phishing training, password resets, and additional safeguards.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 29, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,171 affectedView incident

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.