DisclosureLens
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%

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.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 28, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

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.