MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Shields Health Solutions

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 7, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

39,762

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Shields Health Solutions →3 incidents on file

Shields Health Solutions reported to HHS on 2020-02-07 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 39,762 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of an email phishing scheme affecting ePHI including names, DOB, MRNs, medication, and insurance info. CE implemented safeguards and retrained workforce.

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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

Feb 7, 2020

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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_58053a5d064939f12020-02-14 · +7dVerified

Name: Shields Health Solutions
norm: shields health
Domain: shieldshealthsolutions.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Shields Health Solutions
norm: shields health
Domain: shieldshealthsolutions.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,762nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
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 · 2 filings

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HHS OCRFeb 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Feb 7 (MA), last Feb 14 (MA) — a 7-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: Feb 7, 2020
Raw hash: bf2d7542194cba3a26e56d023c77ba0af7c112bdda60dc1b988a5991cb34ce62

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityShields Health Solutions

Victim entityShields Health Solutions

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing