CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighContained

County of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 16, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

749,017

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for County of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health →7 incidents on file

County of Los Angeles Departments of Health and Mental Health reported to HHS on 2016-12-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 749,017 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employee email accounts were breached in a phishing attack affecting ePHI. Law enforcement was notified, individuals were alerted, and a third-party security audit was conducted. Remediation included blocking malicious emails, enhanced authentication, and credit monitoring.

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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 16, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed749,017 affectedView incident

Name: County of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health
norm: county of los angeles department of mental health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: County of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health
norm: county of los angeles department of mental health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 749,017nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported to HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Local law enforcement was notified
Notified all affected individuals and the media
Hired a third party to conduct a comprehensive HIPAA security audit
Provided all affected individuals with credit monitoring services and identity restoration consultation services
Changes made: Employed cyber features that help identify and block malicious emails
Used an authentication process that will better secure external access to internal emails
Implemented restrictions on the use of personal email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Dec 16, 2016
Raw hash: 0e0884cf6ced7b551210eff93ee0de2321c24c014d30b5369e0e9b4427e8b90a

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Reporting entityCounty of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health

Victim entityCounty of Los Angeles Department of Mental Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseLocal law enforcement was notified

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing