HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsHealth (basic)CredentialsEducationMediumContained

UC San Diego Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 9, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for UC San Diego Health →6 incidents on file

UC San Diego Health disclosed unauthorized access to employee email accounts between December 2, 2020, and April 8, 2021. The incident involved the acquisition of personal information including PHI, SSNs, financial account numbers, and credentials. The organization terminated access, engaged forensic experts, notified the FBI, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

Dec 2, 2020

Begins

Sep 9, 2021

Filed

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

Name: UC San Diego Health
norm: uc san diego health
Domain: health.ucsd.edu

Name: UC San Diego Health
norm: uc san diego health
Domain: health.ucsd.edu
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Dec 2, 2020 – Apr 8, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2021
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial credentialsHealth (basic)CredentialsEducation
Data elements: Date of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email CollectionT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported the event to the FBI
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Terminated the unauthorized access to these accounts
Enhanced our security controls
Reported the event to the FBI
Worked with external cybersecurity experts to investigate the event
Arranged for one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Changes made: Changing employee credentials
Disabling access points
Enhancing our security processes and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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/sb24-545117
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 9, 2021
Raw hash: 3f96bbd0e639aab2de025a212f84053140846fb343e589e1c67246b905d0a40a

Reporting entityUC San Diego Health

Victim entityUC San Diego Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTerminated the unauthorized access to these accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov