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Excellent Home Care Services, LLC
ArchivedSubmitted 12/17/2025
Updated 15 hours ago ()
- State
- NY
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 16,278
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 25, 2026
OCR description
The covered entity (CE), Excellent Home Care Services, LLC, reported that a workforce member sent an email containing the protected health information (PHI) of 16278 individuals to the wrong recipient. The PHI involved demographic and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website. In response to the breach the CE offered free credit monitoring to affected individuals, and implemented administrative, technical and security safeguards and retrained the workforce member on email security. OCR provided technical assistance to the CE.
Change history
- Oct 10, 2026OCR description published
- Sep 23, 2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
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