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NEW YORKMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMedium

AssistCare

bd_4734a96905f29989 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 10, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

57,345

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for AssistCare →

The covered entity (CE), Assistcare Home Health Services, LLC, dba Preferred Home Care of New York/Preferred Gold, reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 57,345 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, clinical information, diagnoses, laboratory results, medications prescribed, treatment information, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its technical and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. The CE also retrained its staff.

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

Mar 10, 2021

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.Confirmed57,345 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.