AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)LowResolved

Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 13, 2016

Filed

Nov 7, 2016

To disclose

25 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California →3 incidents on file

Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California disclosed a misconfiguration error on kp.org during a website upgrade on October 12, 2016. For approximately two hours, protected health information (PHI) viewed by signed-in members may have been mistakenly visible to other visitors. The error was repaired by 1:43 a.m. on October 13, 2016. No Social Security numbers or banking information were disclosed. The organization is updating testing procedures for website updates.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 days

Oct 12, 2016

Begins

Oct 13, 2016

Discovered

Nov 7, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_38e90503d1dc3fce2016-11-07Verified

Name: Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California
norm: kaiser permanente health plan inc of northern california
Domain: kp.org

Name: Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California
norm: kaiser permanente health plan inc of northern california
Domain: kp.org
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Oct 13, 2016
Breach occurred: Oct 12, 2016 – Oct 13, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Took immediate action to repair the error, preventing any further exposure of member information
Promptly corrected the error
Reviewed our website information to identify what protected health information may have been viewed by others
Changes made: Reviewing and updating our processes and procedures for testing website updates to help prevent any similar incident in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 days(25 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRNov 7 · first

California State AGNov 7 · first · this page

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/sb24-64764
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 7, 2016
Raw hash: c5a8a23a8c6a8d09998e7ba02c308be86213e12aff03cec5ae57dd01e4f54f5d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California

Victim entityKaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California

Incidentdiscovered Oct 13, 2016

Stated responseTook immediate action to repair the error, preventing any further exposure of member information

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov