MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICHighContained
Advocates
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Full breach record for Advocates →Advocates, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-01-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 70,031 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved a ransomware attack encrypting PHI (including SSN, driver's license, diagnoses, and treatment info). The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, offered credit monitoring, and implemented security safeguards.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ 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.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_0ad63238657fc299Maine State AGfiled 2022-01-03(18d gap)Candidate
- bd_1e399d8c6abbd173Montana State AGfiled 2022-01-03(18d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- 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 21, 2022
- Raw hash
- 11e3d95b15ec6147032d9ea807e51b35cdeda2c6bf35acc8762d075f67a74461
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Advocatesnorm: advocates
- Domain
- advocates.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Advocatesnorm: advocates
- Domain
- advocates.org
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 6, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 70,031
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS 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 6, 2021→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.