SOUTH DAKOTAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

AAA Collections

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 15, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

4,635

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for AAA Collections →

AAA Collections, Inc. reported to HHS on 2022-12-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,635 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The incident involved ransomware encrypting PHI including names, addresses, DOBs, MRNs, diagnoses, and financial data.

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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

Dec 15, 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 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_dc155d9622c967522022-12-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8b08de040f3a35022022-11-21 · +24dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_1702940db03391382022-11-16 · +29dVerified
Maine State AGbd_313e59a39e7c2f782022-11-16 · +29dCandidate

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Indiana State AGbd_7b2b39c9ae0e7b7a2022-11-16 · +29dVerified
Montana State AGbd_eb5c4f506d1e87ab2022-11-16 · +29dVerified

Name: AAA Collections
norm: aaa collections
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: AAA Collections
norm: aaa collections
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,635nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial 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

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Provided identity theft protection services
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 · 7 filings · 6 states

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Massachusetts State AGNov 16 · first

Maine State AGNov 16 · first

Indiana State AGNov 16 · first

Montana State AGNov 16 · first

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Montana State AG+29d

HHS OCR+29d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 16 (MA), last Dec 15 (SD) — a 29-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: Dec 15, 2022
Raw hash: 5cec58e99f24854a10007169692e4dcca61707dc052a610a6416148d8ba17a87

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAAA Collections

Victim entityAAA Collections

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing