NEW YORKMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Personal Touch Home Care

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 28, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

2,015

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

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

Personal Touch Home Care of Mass., Inc. reported to HHS on 2020-01-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2,015 individuals. A business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) located on network servers. The ePHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE implemented additional internal controls and security safeguards.

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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

—

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

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_607a23fe45a93d712020-01-28Candidate

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: 2,015nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
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

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented additional internal controls as well as technical and security safeguards in its oversight responsibilities of its BAs
Changes made: Implemented additional internal controls as well as technical and security safeguards in its oversight responsibilities of its BAs
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

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HHS OCRJan 28 · first

HHS OCRJan 28 · first · this page

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: 771ad4a421b77375035ab21aa343685968553c843cd602d7f5c508984f538d15

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPersonal Touch Home Care

Victim entityPersonal Touch Home Care

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing