MICHIGANHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Special Tree Ltd.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 20, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

3,820

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Special Tree Ltd. →

Special Tree Ltd. reported to HHS on 2025-03-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3820 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The cyberattack impacted PHI including names, addresses, driver's licenses, SSNs, DOBs, claims, financial info, diagnoses, and medications. The CE enforced MFA, retrained workforce, and increased threat protections.

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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

Mar 20, 2025

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 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_4fe4b85f2c929bf32025-03-31 · +11dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_aa96036f16a0a78e2025-03-31 · +11dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_64c470a8248e427c2025-04-01 · +12dCandidate

Name: Special Tree Ltd.
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Special Tree Ltd.
norm: special tree
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,820nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Rules

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Enforced its multi-factor authentication capabilities
Retrained its workforce
Increased its threat protections
Changes made: Enforced its multi-factor authentication capabilities
Retrained its workforce
Increased its threat protections
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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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HHS OCRMar 20 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+11d

Indiana State AG+11d

Illinois State AG+12d

Pattern: first filing Mar 20 (MI), last Apr 1 (IL) — a 12-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: Mar 20, 2025
Raw hash: da1077920866b51b4077cbf7240d412a0f294aad0d33515d44fa77acebdfa023

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySpecial Tree Ltd.

Victim entitySpecial Tree Ltd.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing