PhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

U.S. HealthWorks

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 22, 2015

Filed

May 29, 2015

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for U.S. HealthWorks →3 incidents on file

U.S. HealthWorks reported the theft of an employee's laptop on April 21, 2015, discovered on April 22, 2015. The laptop was password-protected but not encrypted. It may have contained employee names, addresses, dates of birth, job titles, and Social Security numbers. The company offered one year of Experian ProtectMyID Alert and is enhancing laptop encryption policies.

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California clockDiscovered Apr 22, 2015 → Notified May 28, 201536d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 37 days

Apr 21, 2015

Begins

Apr 22, 2015

Discovered

May 29, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

Name: U.S. HealthWorks
norm: us healthworks

Name: U.S. HealthWorks
norm: us healthworks
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Apr 22, 2015
Breach occurred: Apr 21, 2015
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 28, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium

During the incident: Reported the theft to law enforcement
Began an internal investigation
Conducted a thorough review of the laptop contents
Offering a free one-year membership of Experian's ProtectMyID Alert
Changes made: Enhancing procedures related to deployment of laptops and full disk encryption
Implement a program of regular surveys or audits to help ensure compliance with U.S. HealthWorks' laptop encryption policy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(37 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 36d
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: Apr 22, 2015
→ Notified: May 28, 2015
36d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Apr 22, 2015 → Notified: May 28, 2015	36d	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/sb24-56185
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 29, 2015
Raw hash: 108e88be51a4a01d47543f211d4bc1e7e169443724dbc2de6d913f572c4dc186

Reporting entityU.S. HealthWorks

Victim entityU.S. HealthWorks

Incidentdiscovered Apr 22, 2015

Stated responseReported the theft to law enforcement

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov