CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

California Department of Health Care Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 14, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

6,460

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for California Department of Health Care Services →3 incidents on file

California Department of Health Care Services (Health Plan, CA) reported to HHS on 2023-03-14 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 6,460 individuals. The covered entity's business associate mailed PHI — including names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, addresses, and clinical information — to the wrong recipients. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards were implemented in response.

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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

Mar 14, 2023

Filed

—

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,460 affectedView incident

Name: California Department of Health Care Services
norm: california department of health care
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: California Department of Health Care Services
norm: california department of health care
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,460nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards
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.

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: Mar 14, 2023
Raw hash: d26be477e9f34e6f1557d8b8ba0f5ac46980b4c3737c6e88395fb1803a2089a3

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Reporting entityCalifornia Department of Health Care Services

Victim entityCalifornia Department of Health Care Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing