Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumContained

PRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 6, 2019

Filed

Aug 2, 2019

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES →5 incidents on file

Presbyterian Healthcare Services discovered on June 6, 2019, that an unauthorized person accessed employee email accounts via a phishing email around May 9, 2019. The compromised accounts contained patient health information, including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and clinical/health insurance data. Presbyterian secured the accounts, alerted federal law enforcement, and is offering identity theft protection services to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Jun 6, 2019 → Notified Aug 2, 201957d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 28 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

May 9, 2019

Begins

Jun 6, 2019

Discovered

Aug 2, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_444083c45b5375e42019-08-02Verified
HHS OCRbd_5284ecf8f1bd116e2019-08-02Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_8216f1d5f81f8ce52019-08-02Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_372331556a364edb2019-08-05 · +3dVerified

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Oregon State AGbd_d61285150acc9ea92019-09-20 · +49dVerified

Name: PRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES
norm: presbyterian healthcare

Name: PRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES
norm: presbyterian healthcare
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jun 6, 2019
Breach occurred: May 9, 2019
Undetected for: 28 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 2, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Alerted federal law enforcement
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured these email accounts
Alerted federal law enforcement
Continuing to investigate and conduct a thorough review of each impacted Presbyterian email account
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures to further protect our email system
All workforce members annually must successfully complete mandatory training about the importance and requirement to safeguard all information
Workforce members have received, and will continue to receive, reminders about safeguarding information stored electronically and how to avoid phishing scams
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 57d
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: Jun 6, 2019
→ Notified: Aug 2, 2019
57d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jun 6, 2019 → Notified: Aug 2, 2019	57d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGAug 2 · first

HHS OCRAug 2 · first

Massachusetts State AGAug 2 · first

California State AGAug 2 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+49d

Pattern: first filing Aug 2 (MT), last Sep 20 (OR) — a 49-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/sb24-149440
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 2, 2019
Raw hash: 2b1f793913e13954b23c82d71c7e083a332ccb4bb2e004720c401557b1373d5d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES

Victim entityPRESBYTERIAN HEALTHCARE SERVICES

Incidentdiscovered Jun 6, 2019

Stated responseSecured these email accounts

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov