CALIFORNIAMalwareHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

VON BEHREN & HUNTER LLP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 11, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

5,852

Linked

4 records

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for VON BEHREN & HUNTER LLP →

Von Behren & Hunter LLP (a Business Associate, CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2022-04-11 a ransomware attack affecting the PHI of 5,852 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, claims information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Additional technical safeguards were implemented, complimentary credit monitoring was offered, policies were revised, and employees were retrained. OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Rules.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d

⚠ 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

Apr 11, 2022

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

A leak claim by lockbit2 about this victim was first seen 74 days before this filing.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitelockbit2bd_59d98ecefb52062c2022-01-27 · +74dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_2a888327397200b72022-05-18 · +37dVerified by operator
Illinois State AGbd_612fbea5e64abf662022-01-01 · +100dVerified by operator

Name: VON BEHREN & HUNTER LLP
norm: von behren hunter
Domain: vbhlaw.com
Industry: Business Associate

Name: VON BEHREN & HUNTER LLP
norm: von behren hunter
Domain: vbhlaw.com
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,852nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR provided technical assistance to the BA regarding the HIPAA Rules.

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Revised policies and procedures
Retrained employees
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
Revised policies and procedures
Retrained employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >30dHHS 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 · 3 filings · 2 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

HHS OCR+100d · this page

California State AG+137d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last May 18 (CA) — a 137-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: Apr 11, 2022
Raw hash: dea5e7a6810e550dbe6e111816c5f3205d03fe0976d280741d4c2791f47ea07b

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Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVON BEHREN & HUNTER LLP

Victim entityVON BEHREN & HUNTER LLP

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing