Telecare

Disclosed Sep 30, 2019823 affectedConfirmed

The covered entity (CE), Telecare Corporation, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 823 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthdates, financial information, clinical information, and other treatment information. After the breach, the CE sanctioned the workforce member responsible for the incident and retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. The CE also implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI.

What is known

People affected	823 (as reported to HHS)
Disclosed	Sep 30, 2019
Happened	Jul 25, 2019
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	NamesHealth
Sector	Healthcare · US
Status	Confirmed

Sources

Official noticeoag.ca.gov

California Attorney General breach notice: Telecare

Official noticeocrportal.hhs.gov

HHS OCR breach report (archive, resolved): Telecare (Healthcare Provider, CA)

Notices filed

TotalSep 30, 2019

HHS archive823 people

Residents of CAOct 4, 2019

California AGCount not stated

History of this record

sector2026-09-25

other to healthby backfillSource

attack2026-09-25

unknown to hackingby backfillSource

data_types2026-09-25

[] to ["names","health"]by backfillSource

records_basis2026-09-25

empty to hhsby backfillSource

records2026-09-25

empty to 823by backfillSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2019-10-04 to 2019-09-30by backfillSource

summary2026-09-25

empty to The covered entity (CE), Telecare Corporation, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 823 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, birthby backfillSource

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

Everything about Telecare