COLORADOMalwareHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalContained

Professional Finance Company

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 1, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,918,941

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Professional Finance Company →2 incidents on file

Professional Finance Company, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-07-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,918,941 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The business associate experienced a ransomware attack compromising PHI including names, addresses, birthdates, SSNs, and financial/insurance data. The BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security 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

Jul 1, 2022

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_49e1eb4e4b2f87f42022-07-01Verified
Maine State AGbd_640d80038ee00b122022-07-01Verified
Montana State AGbd_8650c05ef2646cb82022-07-01Verified
Washington State AGbd_befcd16a7ae82f822022-07-01Verified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_d63e74aeb33f26ea2022-07-01Verified
Oregon State AGbd_e9316ef5dce5f05c2022-07-01Verified
California State AGbd_fef912feb56f76812022-07-01Verified
Montana State AGbd_426f675f0ed006b72022-05-17 · +45dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_f1da390d730f310b2022-05-03 · +59dCandidate

Name: Professional Finance Company
norm: professional finance
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Professional Finance Company
norm: professional finance
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,918,941nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
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 Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Professional Finance Company, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
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.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 9 states

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Indiana State AGMay 3 · first

Montana State AG+14d

South Carolina State AG+59d

Maine State AG+59d

Montana State AG+59d

Washington State AG+59d

Massachusetts State AG+59d

Oregon State AG+59d

California State AG+59d

HHS OCR+59d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 3 (IN), last Jul 1 (CO) — a 59-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: Jul 1, 2022
Raw hash: b6b055fb1c6925bf52e386191d750625ff1a6e3371478e63c9e16ea638f8e050

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityProfessional Finance Company

Victim entityProfessional Finance Company

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing