Social EngineeringHealth (basic)PHIPIILowContained

AVVACare

bd_16d572fa04abd6be · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 5, 2026

Filed

Apr 30, 2026

To disclose

16 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for AVVACare →

AVVACare, Inc. notified Massachusetts residents of a phishing incident involving a corporate email account. Discovered January 5, 2026, the breach exposed protected health information (PHI) and PII of dementia patients and caregivers. AVVACare secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and implemented MFA reinforcement and employee retraining. Notifications were sent on March 23, 2026.

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Massachusetts clock✗ MA AG >90d16 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 weeks / 115 days

Jan 5, 2026

Discovered

Apr 30, 2026

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed10 affectedView incident

Name: AVVACare
norm: avvacare
Domain: avvacare.com

Name: AVVACare
norm: avvacare
Domain: avvacare.com

Discovered: Jan 5, 2026
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 23, 2026
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Health (basic)PHIPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the account (revoking active sessions and changing the password)
Reinforcing multi-factor authentication controls
Retraining employees on recognizing and responding to suspicious emails
Engaged external cybersecurity specialists to conduct a forensic investigation
Changes made: Reinforcing multi-factor authentication controls
Retraining employees on recognizing and responding to suspicious emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 weeks(115 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: MA AG >90d
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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-670-avvacare-inc/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 30, 2026
Raw hash: d4effef2afb1623997262c1c7d03ebcc3f7395897725e3246d690d46cc9559f4

Reporting entityAVVACare

Victim entityAVVACare

Incidentdiscovered Jan 5, 2026

Stated responseSecured the account (revoking active sessions and changing the password)

ComplianceMA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov