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The Guidance Center, Inc.
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Full breach record for The Guidance Center, Inc. →The Guidance Center, a California non-profit providing mental health services, disclosed a data breach affecting 1,235 California residents. A former employee gained unauthorized remote access to email accounts containing PHI, names, SSNs, and financial data. The incident was detected in March 2019, investigated by forensic experts, and reported to law enforcement and OCR. Residents were notified in October 2019 and offered credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Mar 25, 2019 → Notified Oct 28, 2019217d ✗ CA 60-day late31 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ 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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_8be6cad5380514d5HHS OCRfiled 2019-10-28(2d gap)Verified by operator
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-183952
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 30, 2019
- Raw hash
- 13096deff03ec9df8933c8e53a8a28ce9da0c1f74736f14457a5528ccadc7b01
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Guidance Center, Inc.norm: the guidance center
Victim entity
- Name
- The Guidance Center, Inc.norm: the guidance center
Incident
- Discovered
- Mar 25, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 28, 2019
- Affected individuals
- 1,235
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Insider
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified the California Department of Public HealthNotified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 31 weeks(219 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 217d
- 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 California Discovered: Mar 25, 2019→ Notified: Oct 28, 2019217d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.