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Physician's Business Office

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 23, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

80%

Full breach record for Physician's Business Office →

Physician's Business Office, Inc. (PBO), a medical practice management and administrative services firm, experienced unauthorized access to its computer systems in April 2022. An unknown individual may have accessed or acquired personal and protected health information including names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, driver's license numbers, medical treatment/diagnosis information, disability codes, prescription information, and health insurance account data. PBO engaged a digital forensics firm and notified affected individuals in September 2022.

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Incident timeline

Apr 5, 2022

Begins

Sep 23, 2022

Filed

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

New Hampshire State AGbd_17318e6d4cd7304f2022-09-23Verified
Maine State AGbd_22d63588c8f3bfb92022-09-23Verified
Montana State AGbd_c8e23e57dc38b9512022-09-23Verified
HHS OCRbd_eb79ec7aa7b1faf92022-09-23Verified

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Indiana State AGbd_f52fbf50195e36242022-09-23Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_f60acf7b17aaae302022-09-26 · +3dVerified

Name: Physician's Business Office
norm: physician s business office
Industry: Medical practice management and administrative services

Name: Physician's Business Office
norm: physician s business office
Industry: Medical practice management and administrative services
Industry: HealthcarellmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 5, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 23, 2022
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated CollectionT1074 Data Staged
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Took steps to secure its network with the help of its information technology provider
Hired a leading, independent digital forensics and incident response firm to investigate what happened and to help identify whether any sensitive information may have been involved
Worked diligently to identify the potentially affected individuals and to collect up-to-date mailing addresses for purposes of providing notification
Provided notice of the incident to the provider on July 26, 2022
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Implemented several measures in its computer system to increase the security of the information it stores and reduce the likelihood of a similar incident happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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New Hampshire State AGSep 23 · first

Maine State AGSep 23 · first

Montana State AGSep 23 · first

HHS OCRSep 23 · first

Indiana State AGSep 23 · first

California State AGSep 23 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-557575
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 23, 2022
Raw hash: 1b43bed2de681912085a30960e46da70149e37ff36f47d3f311ba04789086dc5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPhysician's Business Office

Victim entityPhysician's Business Office

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTook steps to secure its network with the help of its information technology provider

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov