VIRGINIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Supply Chain (3P Vendor)Data EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Personal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 28, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,657

Confidence

93%

Full breach record for Personal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc. →

Personal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc. reported that its business associate suffered a ransomware attack affecting ePHI of 1,657 individuals. Affected data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; did not renew the BA contract; implemented additional technical and security 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

Jan 28, 2020

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.Confirmed1,657 affectedView incident

Name: Personal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc.
norm: personal touch hospice of va

Name: Personal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc.
norm: personal touch hospice of va
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 28, 2020
Affected individuals: 1,657nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network serverOther
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Did not renew its contract with its BA
Changes made: Implemented additional technical and security safeguards
Retrained its staff
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: Jan 28, 2020
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: Jan 28, 2020	—	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 28, 2020
Raw hash: 1970e293ba46b1dde6704fd51bf0672db3813cb63434547762c0eb5ed8bca395

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Reporting entityPersonal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc.

Victim entityPersonal Touch Hospice of VA, Inc.

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing