MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

L. KNIFE & SON, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 30, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

4,082

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for L. KNIFE & SON, LLC →2 incidents on file

L. Knife & Son, Inc. Employee Benefits Plan (MA) reported to HHS on 2022-12-30 a ransomware attack affecting 4,082 individuals. PHI compromised included names, addresses, birthdates, and Social Security numbers stored on a network server. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards in response.

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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

Dec 30, 2022

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_147257e5513864692022-12-30Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_61bdcc78cac6fa722022-12-30Verified
Maine State AGbd_61cb93a578d2cdba2022-12-30Verified
Indiana State AGbd_9dc5429196b125b52022-12-30Verified

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Vermont State AGbd_1be02c5d8c13870e2022-12-23 · +7dCandidate
Montana State AGbd_b2d78534115a48ce2023-01-30 · +31dVerified

Name: L. KNIFE & SON, LLC
norm: l knife son
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: L. KNIFE & SON, LLC
norm: l knife son
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,082nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards
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 · 7 filings · 6 states

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Vermont State AGDec 23 · first

Massachusetts State AG+7d

New Hampshire State AG+7d

Maine State AG+7d

Indiana State AG+7d

HHS OCR+7d · this page

Montana State AG+38d

Pattern: first filing Dec 23 (VT), last Jan 30 (MT) — a 38-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: Dec 30, 2022
Raw hash: 93e3c5f4b58fb21e27afd1b906ffc03c8d42bf2cb9da65440db78439742cf453

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityL. KNIFE & SON, LLC

Victim entityL. KNIFE & SON, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing