In November, Hunters International claimed that they had attacked Covenant Care. Since that time, they have been leaking what appears to be more and more patients' protected health information (PHI) and employees' personal information. Covenant Care operates services providing skilled nursing, residential care, therapy services, and home health care at 29 locations in California and Nevada. There is no notice on their website about any data security incident and nothing posted on HHS's public breach tool. According to Hunters, they encrypted files, but there is nothing on Covenant Care's site that indicates any disruption in services or care at all.
Covenant Care has previously experienced other cyberattacks affecting patient data: On March 6, 2019, on behalf of "relevant affiliated nursing facilities," they notified HHS that 7,678 patients were affected by a phishing incident that affected 10,831 individuals. HHS's closing statement noted that the protected health information (PHI) involved included names, dates of birth, dates of death, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance information, clinical information, and treatment information. "As a result of this breach, CCC implemented additional technical and administrative safeguards to better protect its PHI. Affected individuals were offered free credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services. OCR also provided CCC with technical assistance regarding its security management process and obtained assurances that CCC implemented the corrective actions noted above." On May 6, 2022, on behalf of Wagner Height
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