West Hills Hospital & Medical Center
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Full breach record for West Hills Hospital & Medical Center →West Hills Hospital & Medical Center (CA) reported to HHS on 2019-08-06 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 10,650 individuals. Business associate United WestLabs, Inc. notified the CE on June 12, 2019 that its subcontractor, American Medical Collection Agency, suffered unauthorized server access between August 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. Exposed ePHI included names, addresses, medical account numbers, dates of service, amounts paid, referring doctors' codes, and disposition codes. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, and ceased sending collection accounts to the subcontractor. OCR reviewed BA agreements and confirmed corrective actions.
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
- Aug 6, 2019
- Raw hash
- 10141f9d0ee71425ed83a49496111b4cb5ccca8d6804b626ff5cf448709b9cc8
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- West Hills Hospital & Medical Centernorm: west hills hospital medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- West Hills Hospital & Medical Centernorm: west hills hospital medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jun 12, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Aug 6, 2019
- Affected individuals
- 10,650
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access· American Medical Collection Agency
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained documentation of applicable BA agreements.OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective action steps.
- Third party
- via American Medical Collection Agency
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(55 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day OK · 55dHHS notified · 55d
- 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: Jun 12, 2019→ Notified: Aug 6, 201955d 60 days HIPAA 60-day OK HIPAA Discovered: Jun 12, 2019→ Notified: Aug 6, 201955d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.