NEW YORKMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData 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

2,863

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

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

Personal Touch Home Care of S.E. Mass., Inc. reported to HHS on 2020-01-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2863 individuals. A business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack affecting ePHI including names, SSNs, and medical data. Breached information located on Network Server, Other.

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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_33afd0bb85a6becd2020-01-28Candidate

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: 2,863nationwide
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 ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Implemented additional internal controls
Implemented technical and security safeguards in oversight responsibilities of BAs
Changes made: Implemented additional internal controls
Implemented technical and security safeguards in oversight responsibilities of 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: f05edf63d18499556e345d7d461520dc2b0121ee7e72bb4850994543c4753f07

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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

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing