HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of March 10, 2021.
- Organization as reported
- Assistcare Home Health Services LLC dba Preferred Home Care of NY/Preferred Gold, NY
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- March 10, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12303, row:3442)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
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.