TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

Houston Area Community Services, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 5, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

12,186

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Houston Area Community Services, Inc. →

Avenue 360 Health and Wellness (Houston Area Community Services, Inc.) reported to HHS on 2022-01-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 12,186 individuals. Multiple employees were victims of an email phishing attack. Breached PHI located on Email systems included names, dates of birth, health insurance, medications, diagnoses, financial information, Social Security numbers, and other treatment information. The CE provided credit monitoring and implemented additional safeguards and phishing awareness training.

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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 5, 2022

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.Confirmed12,186 affectedView incident

Name: Houston Area Community Services, Inc.
norm: houston area community
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Houston Area Community Services, Inc.
norm: houston area community
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Houston Area Community Services, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Avenue 360 Health and Wellnessdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 12,186nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted 2022-01-05
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided substitute notice
Offered complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Provided training on phishing and security awareness
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Employee phishing and security awareness training conducted
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 5, 2022
Raw hash: 098d8821a04afc9ab48d94bd2905575636eeeb2ba0ee9d72a6e60268397fbaab

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Reporting entityHouston Area Community Services, Inc.

Victim entityHouston Area Community Services, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing