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CALIFORNIASocial EngineeringHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Sacramento County Department of Health Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 9, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

2,096

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Sacramento County Department of Health Services →

Sacramento County Department of Health Services reported to HHS on 2021-12-09 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing scheme) affecting 2,096 individuals. Several employees were subjects of a phishing attack compromising PHI including names, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email systems. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided credit monitoring, and retrained staff on email security.

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

Dec 9, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,096 affectedView incident

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.