MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareGandcrabBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedData EncryptedRansom DemandedDelayed DiscoveryPHIHealth (basic)HighContained

Doctors' Management Service, Inc

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$100K

Discovered

Dec 24, 2018

Filed

Apr 22, 2019

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

206,695

Linked

6 records

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Doctors' Management Service, Inc →2 incidents on file

Doctors Management Services, Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-04-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 206,695 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved GandCrab ransomware encrypting files and exfiltrating data. Initial access occurred 2017-04-01; detected 2018-12-24. $100,000 settlement reached with OCR.

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HIPAA clockDiscovered Dec 24, 2018 → Notified Apr 22, 2019119d ✗ HHS report late17 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 632 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 119 days

Apr 1, 2017

Begins

Dec 24, 2018

Discovered

Apr 22, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+8 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_1d84cc65754441c12019-04-22Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_31de1d03468648ee2019-04-23 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_525d9e853fad41d72019-04-24 · +2dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_2817736d1e5cea712019-05-28 · +36dVerified

Enforcement records (1)

HHS OCR enforcementbd_928833438d5c3c322023-10-31 · +1653dVerified by operator

Name: Doctors' Management Service, Inc
norm: doctors management service
Domain: doctorsmanagementservice.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Doctors' Management Service, Inc
norm: doctors management service
Domain: doctorsmanagementservice.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Dec 24, 2018
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2017
Undetected for: 632 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 22, 2019
Affected individuals: 206,695nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (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 announced a settlementHHS OCR began its investigation in April 2019
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Filed a breach report with HHS
Agreed to pay $100,000 to OCR
Implemented a corrective action plan
Changes made: Agreed to implement a corrective action plan to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Agreed to allow OCR to monitor compliance for three years
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(119 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report late · 119dHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Dec 24, 2018
→ Notified: Apr 22, 2019
119d 60 days HHS report late
HIPAA
Discovered: Dec 24, 2018
→ Notified: Apr 22, 2019
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Dec 24, 2018 → Notified: Apr 22, 2019	119d	60 days	HHS report late
HIPAA	Discovered: Dec 24, 2018 → Notified: Apr 22, 2019	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGApr 22 · first

HHS OCRApr 22 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+2d

New Hampshire State AG+36d

Pattern: first filing Apr 22 (MT), last May 28 (NH) — a 36-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 22, 2019
Raw hash: b8a9593f56873a66ede91c88743e7011535a6bb54afebda17aaf4c6beccc2290

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Enforcement records (1)

Reporting entityDoctors' Management Service, Inc

Victim entityDoctors' Management Service, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Dec 24, 2018

Stated responseFiled a breach report with HHS

ComplianceHHS report late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing