TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighResolved
Houston Area Community Services, Inc.
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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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed12,186 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Houston Area Community Services, Inc.norm: houston area community
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Houston Area Community Services, Inc.norm: houston area community
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 12,186
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- 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
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.