ILLINOISMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Supply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedData ExfiltratedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Caring Communities

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 20, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,659

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Caring Communities →2 incidents on file

Caring Communities (IL, Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2022-01-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,659 individuals. The BA's third-party cloud storage vendor suffered a ransomware attack that compromised PHI including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. Breached information located on Network Server. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, provided substitute notice, offered credit monitoring, and terminated its relationship with the vendor.

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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 20, 2022

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_6d00bad4472e8ed52022-01-14 · +6dVerified

Name: Caring Communities
norm: caring communities

Name: Caring Communities
norm: caring communities
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,659nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Terminated business relationship with third-party cloud storage vendor
Changes made: Terminated relationship with compromised third-party cloud storage vendor
Provided complimentary credit monitoring to affected individuals
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 14 · first

HHS OCR+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 14 (MA), last Jan 20 (IL) — a 6-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.

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 20, 2022
Raw hash: 8b6ad135465055cc464730184da01639f44968eb89f930450c7bbeeb5cdc0ac0

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCaring Communities

Victim entityCaring Communities

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing