FLORIDASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Preferred Care Home Health Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 28, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

2,374

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Preferred Care Home Health Services →2 incidents on file

Preferred Care Home Health Services reported to HHS on 2020-09-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2374 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme that exposed ePHI including names, DOB, SSN, addresses, driver's license numbers, diagnoses, and medications. The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, provided substitute notice, credit monitoring, and identity protection services, and implemented technical safeguards and staff retraining.

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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

Sep 28, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_84f63ec4326ba0ab2020-09-28Verified

Name: Preferred Care Home Health Services
norm: preferred care home health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Preferred Care Home Health Services
norm: preferred care home health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,374nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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, affected individuals, and the media
Provided substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained its staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained its staff on recognizing and responding to 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 · 2 states

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Maine State AGSep 28 · first

HHS OCRSep 28 · first · this page

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: Sep 28, 2020
Raw hash: 910ce3a77a57bbb0a4f098eb21000a3c821ef5815d14aba114473d03b8ed834e

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPreferred Care Home Health Services

Victim entityPreferred Care Home Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing