VIRGINIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Personal Touch Home Care

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 28, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

33,324

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Personal Touch Home Care →9 incidents on file

Personal Touch Home Care of VA, Inc. reported to HHS on 2020-01-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 33324 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server, Other. The case involved a ransomware attack by business associate Crossroads Technologies, Inc. and was closed/consolidated into an existing investigation.

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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

Jan 28, 2020

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.Confirmed33,324 affectedView incident

Name: Personal Touch Home Care
norm: personal touch home care
Domain: pthomecare.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Personal Touch Home Care
norm: personal touch home care
Domain: pthomecare.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 33,324nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network serverOther
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Consolidated into existing HHS OCR investigation
Third party: via Crossroads Technologies, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Case closed and consolidated into existing investigation
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Jan 28, 2020
Raw hash: 6ae34a8eed9324b4304bb5883de85535f69385d6313d9ddce0b514e66c38fe10

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Reporting entityPersonal Touch Home Care

Victim entityPersonal Touch Home Care

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseCase closed and consolidated into existing investigation

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing