TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Personal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 28, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,700

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Personal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc. →

Personal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc. reported to HHS on 2020-01-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1700 individuals. A business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack affecting ePHI (names, addresses, DOB, SSN, claims, diagnoses, lab results, medications) located on Network Servers. The CE implemented additional internal controls and technical safeguards.

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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

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,700 affectedView incident

Name: Personal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc.
norm: personal touch home services of dallas
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Personal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc.
norm: personal touch home services of dallas
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,700nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network serverOther
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented additional internal controls as well as technical and security safeguards in its oversight responsibilities of its BAs
Changes made: Implemented additional internal controls as well as technical and security safeguards in its oversight responsibilities of its BAs
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.

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: c59b3fd8db69ecf41a2af7516ba4e26cf031c80ffbb3313a7c7158f57006acef

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Reporting entityPersonal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc.

Victim entityPersonal Touch Home Services of Dallas, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing