CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareEmail MisusePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountFinancialMediumResolved

Sutter Medical Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 11, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

2,302

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Sutter Medical Foundation →2 incidents on file

Sutter Medical Foundation (CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-09-11 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,302 individuals. A former employee of Sutter Connect, LLC dba Sutter Physician Services (a business associate) retained copies of patient information and emailed electronic documents to a personal email account. PHI involved: names, dates of birth, financial information, claims information, clinical information, and diagnosis/conditions. Relatives of the former employee alerted Sutter Health, citing concern about identity theft and unlawful check writing. Breached information located in Email. Staff were retrained on PHI safeguarding.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 11, 2015

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_6c2beb7b1da467052015-09-11Verified

Name: Sutter Medical Foundation
norm: sutter medical
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sutter Medical Foundation
norm: sutter medical
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,302nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountFinancial
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative ProtocolT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; separate breach report filed for paper records retention incident
Third party: via Sutter Connect, LLC dba Sutter Physician Servicesbusiness associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Investigation into former employee's activities conducted by Sutter Health
Breach report filed with HHS OCR
Separate breach report filed for initial paper records retention incident
Changes made: SMF re-trained staff on how to safeguard PHI
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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California State AGSep 11 · first

HHS OCRSep 11 · 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://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: Sep 11, 2015
Raw hash: d303500b9835d3537dbd756d1758a05f1cff038c6429edf2daffef06b3505128

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySutter Medical Foundation

Victim entitySutter Medical Foundation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseInvestigation into former employee's activities conducted by Sutter Health

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing