MalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHIHighContained

Peoples Injury Network Northwest

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Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 8, 2019

Filed

Sep 12, 2019

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

12,502state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Peoples Injury Network Northwest →

Peoples Injury Network Northwest (PINN), a physical rehabilitation company, notified the Washington AG of a ransomware incident affecting servers on April 22, 2019. PINN discovered the risk on August 8, 2019. The incident potentially exposed patient PHI, names, DOBs, and driver's license numbers for 12,502 Washington residents. PINN took servers offline, engaged forensic investigators, and provided one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 108 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 35 days

Apr 22, 2019

Begins

Aug 8, 2019

Discovered

Sep 12, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_49c673d13f48a3512019-09-12Verified
HHS OCRbd_71c9c8871a18f4352019-09-12Verified
Oregon State AGbd_792483bc9c16cf852019-09-12Verified

Name: Vedder Price PC
norm: vedder price

Name: Peoples Injury Network Northwest
norm: peoples injury network northwest
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Aug 8, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 22, 2019 – Apr 23, 2019
Undetected for: 108 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 12, 2019
Affected individuals: 12,502state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Data elements: NameDriver's licence numberDate of birthMedical information
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Health and Human ServicesNotified the Washington Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Took infected servers offline
Retained a computer forensics firm to analyze the servers
Restored most of the data from back-ups
Arranged to provide one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through ID Experts
Established a call center for affected residents
Notified the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Health and Human Services
Notified relevant state regulators including the Washington Office of the Attorney General
Changes made: Terminated the attacker's access to PINN's systems
Taken infected servers offline
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(35 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGSep 12 · first

HHS OCRSep 12 · first

Oregon State AGSep 12 · first

Washington State AGSep 12 · 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10508.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 12, 2019
Raw hash: 46d5b8776ccf98a87296af5420cf85a96640dad9c5e27f11b91745d2fbb8d291

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVedder Price PC

Victim entityPeoples Injury Network Northwest

Incidentdiscovered Aug 8, 2019

Stated responseTook infected servers offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com