NEW YORKMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)FinancialCriticalContained

Professional Business Systems, Inc.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 1, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,210,688

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Professional Business Systems, Inc. →

Professional Business Systems, Inc. (dba Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions and PBS Medcode Corp.), a business associate, reported to HHS on 2021-07-01 a ransomware incident affecting 1,210,688 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, health insurance, clinical, and financial information. The BA implemented additional safeguards and retrained staff.

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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

Jul 1, 2021

Filed

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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 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_0106ed492c5ece372021-07-01Verified
Montana State AGbd_16c2261ae907270f2021-07-01Verified
California State AGbd_6ae8ca48588440d52021-07-01Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_b8dc597087b04e672021-07-01Verified

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New Hampshire State AGbd_417756b2a81e6a452021-07-06 · +5dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_d5463f3d3b1aa5252021-01-01 · +181dCandidate

Name: Professional Business Systems, Inc.
norm: professional business
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Professional Business Systems, Inc.
norm: professional business
Industry: Health Care Services
Also named: Professional Business Systems, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions and PBS Medcode Corp.dba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,210,688nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSNotified affected individualsNotified the mediaProvided substitute notice

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
Staff were also retrained on obligations to protect and secure PHI
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 · 7 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Maine State AG+181d

Montana State AG+181d

California State AG+181d

Massachusetts State AG+181d

HHS OCR+181d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+186d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Jul 6 (NH) — a 186-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: Jul 1, 2021
Raw hash: 1f68fcf2ce3ef790c90c0c9762e8d35fa8686e15e9a4e74ef1738c1e475d1dc0

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityProfessional Business Systems, Inc.

Victim entityProfessional Business Systems, Inc.

IncidentRansomware

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing