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CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Dignity Health Medical Foundation

bd_07f321178aeb1a0c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Dec 19, 2017

To disclose

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Affected

2,189

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Dignity Health Medical Foundation →

Dignity Health Medical Foundation (DHMF) reported to HHS on 2017-12-19 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,189 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. Business associate Admail mailed PHI to wrong recipients due to a programmer's error. PHI involved included names and addresses. Admail failed to use appropriate quality control measures. DHMF required Admail to revise its SOPs and the responsible employee was sanctioned and retrained.

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 19, 2017

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.Confirmed2,189 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.