TEXASHackingHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalContained

ELARA CARING

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 24, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

100,487

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for ELARA CARING →3 incidents on file

BW Homecare Holdings, LLC d.b.a. Elara Caring reported to HHS on 2021-02-24 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 100,487 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme. PHI included names, DOB, addresses, driver’s license, SSN, financial info, and treatment info. CE provided credit monitoring and retrained staff.

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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

Feb 24, 2021

Filed

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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 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_27321bb2bdb2fe782021-03-01 · +5dVerified
Montana State AGbd_401ea64a041d73c32021-02-17 · +7dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_07d0d0585d4e0f902021-01-01 · +54dVerified

Name: ELARA CARING
norm: elara caring
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: ELARA CARING
norm: elara caring
Also named: BW Homecare Holdings, LLCdba oflegal entity
Elara Caringdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 100,487nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
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 HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security
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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AG+47d

HHS OCR+54d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+59d

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Mar 1 (MA) — a 59-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: Feb 24, 2021
Raw hash: 1df8556a0f4698633c340de350660b32a2bba65fe3c96ee08a2e284c1286edef

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityELARA CARING

Victim entityELARA CARING

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided complimentary credit monitoring services

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing