MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIMediumContained

PVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness

bd_2b5b27f3a402aa9f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 4, 2017

Filed

Jun 30, 2017

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for PVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness →

PVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness LLC reported a ransomware incident affecting a server at the UCHealth Walk In Clinic in Fort Collins, CO. Discovered May 4, 2017, the server contained PHI and PII (SSNs, names, addresses) for patients seen prior to Sept 2014. No evidence of data exfiltration. 2 NH residents notified. Remediation included taking server offline and encrypted backups.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

May 4, 2017

Discovered

Jun 30, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_e7b8d0ec510bd9cc2017-06-30Verified
HHS OCRbd_8d97daf97b4cc3562017-07-03 · +3dVerified

Name: PVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness
norm: pvhs icm employee health and wellness

Name: PVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness
norm: pvhs icm employee health and wellness
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: May 4, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 30, 2017
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: Social Security numberMedical information
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began an internal investigation
Hired independent computer forensic experts to assist
Took the impacted server offline
Created an encrypted backup of the information on the server
Stored the backup in a secure location
Notified patients out of an abundance of caution
Provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through ID Experts
Notified the major credit reporting agencies
Notified Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights
Changes made: Taking the impacted server offline
Creating an encrypted backup of the information on the server
Storing the backup in a secure location
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGJun 30 · first

New Hampshire State AGJun 30 · first · this page

HHS OCR+3d

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/pvhs-icm-20170630.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 30, 2017
Raw hash: c01a247c2f2f1e73a2849a2debe615f187bba8d0d70287f6882f6a47e975cae6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness

Victim entityPVHS-ICM Employee Health and Wellness

Incidentdiscovered May 4, 2017

Stated responseBegan an internal investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov