AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumResolved

KAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 31, 2012

Filed

Oct 29, 2012

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for KAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST →4 incidents on file

Kaiser Permanente mistakenly emailed a list of former Northern California employees, including names and Social Security numbers, to an unauthorized recipient on August 24, 2012. The incident was discovered in late August 2012. Investigation confirmed the recipient deleted the data and did not further distribute it. No personal health information was involved. New controls were implemented to prevent recurrence.

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California clockDiscovered Aug 31, 2012 → Notified Oct 29, 201259d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 7 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Aug 24, 2012

Begins

Aug 31, 2012

Discovered

Oct 29, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: KAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST
norm: kaiser permanente
Domain: kaiserpermanente.org

Name: KAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST
norm: kaiser permanente
Domain: kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Aug 31, 2012
Breach occurred: Aug 24, 2012
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2012
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unknown

During the incident: Conducted a detailed analysis to confirm that the recipient effectively deleted the information
Confirmed that the information had not been further emailed or printed
Immediately took steps to investigate and secure the information that was inadvertently transmitted
Changes made: Put in place new controls to secure this type of employee information and prevent this from happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 59d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Aug 31, 2012
→ Notified: Oct 29, 2012
59d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Aug 31, 2012 → Notified: Oct 29, 2012	59d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-36833
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 29, 2012
Raw hash: bec1115c9b5f646c6c5217fc48ac4859c3d66c58365085dbb61eca51c6457e78

Reporting entityKAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST

Victim entityKAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST

Incidentdiscovered Aug 31, 2012

Stated responseConducted a detailed analysis to confirm that the recipient effectively deleted the information

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov