DisclosureLens
COLORADOHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Medium

Personal Assistance Services of Colorado

bd_d992f036bb5c881e · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 20, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,839

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Personal Assistance Services of Colorado →

An employee of Personal Assistance Services of Colorado, LLC fell victim to an email phishing scheme, exposing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 1,839 individuals. The compromised data included names, addresses, dates of birth, health insurance details, and treatment information. In response, the company implemented enhanced safeguards and provided additional staff training. OCR offered technical assistance during the investigation.

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

Sep 20, 2018

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.Confirmed1,839 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.