Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsHighContained

Creative Hospice Care, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 31, 2022

Filed

Aug 26, 2022

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

1,497state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Creative Hospice Care, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Creative Hospice Care, Inc. d/b/a Homestead Hospice & Palliative Care notified affected individuals of unauthorized access to company email accounts and lost work laptops between April 1, 2021, and March 31, 2022. The incident, discovered on March 31, 2022, potentially exposed names, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, payment card numbers, and credentials. The company engaged forensic investigators and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due21 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

undetected · 364 days

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 148 days

Apr 1, 2021

Begins

Mar 31, 2022

Discovered

Aug 26, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,497 affectedView incident

Name: Creative Hospice Care, Inc.
norm: creative hospice care

Name: Creative Hospice Care, Inc.
norm: creative hospice care
Also named: Creative Hospice Care, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Homestead Hospice & Palliative Caredba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 31, 2022
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2021 – Mar 31, 2022
Undetected for: 364 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,497state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentials
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to contain the issue
Began a detailed investigation with the assistance of outside cyber security firms
Contacted former workforce members to confirm that information contained on the laptops has not been misused or disclosed
Offering complimentary one-year membership in Experian IdentityWorks Credit 3B
Changes made: Reinforcing education with our staff on data privacy
Implemented additional security measures to enhance our email security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(148 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2022/HomesteadHospice%26PalliativeCare.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 26, 2022
Raw hash: effc855c079d02fd376c67bbf8298a14bba4671fc024e1866aeb2838b1c6ce05

Reporting entityCreative Hospice Care, Inc.

Victim entityCreative Hospice Care, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 31, 2022

Stated responseTook steps to contain the issue

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov