FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
ST. JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM
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Full breach record for ST. JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM →St. Joseph Health System (CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2012-02-15 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 12,234 individuals (HHS portal count; OCR investigation found 31,800 individuals actually exposed). ePHI stored on a network server was publicly accessible via internet search engines (e.g. Google) from Feb 1, 2011 to Feb 13, 2012, due to default file-sharing application settings left unconfigured. Data exposed included patient names, health statuses, diagnoses, and demographics. SJH settled with OCR for $2,140,500 and agreed to a corrective action plan.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Feb 14, 2012 → Notified Feb 15, 20121d ✓ HIPAA 60-day OK≤1 day discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed12,234 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Feb 15, 2012
- Raw hash
- b83a69f32bfe0cf560a2d29380bfa95ab850e34a6b94707175ebabb467cbc35e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- ST. JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEMnorm: st joseph health system
- Domain
- stjosephhealth.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- ST. JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEMnorm: st joseph health system
- Domain
- stjosephhealth.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 14, 2012
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 15, 2012
- Affected individuals
- 12,234
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation; settlement of $2,140,500 agreed; corrective action plan adopted including enterprise-wide risk analysis, risk management plan, policy revisions, and staff training
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- ≤1 day(1 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day OK · 1dHHS notified · 1d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Feb 14, 2012→ Notified: Feb 15, 20121d 60 days HIPAA 60-day OK HIPAA Discovered: Feb 14, 2012→ Notified: Feb 15, 20121d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.