CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Sierra View District Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 20, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

1,009

Confidence

95%

Sierra View District Hospital (also referred to as Sierra View Medical Center) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-09-20 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,009 individuals. A workforce member impermissibly accessed an internal hospital roster across departments over several days between July and August 2013. Exposed ePHI included patient names, room numbers, treating physician information, diagnoses, and treatment notes stored in Electronic Medical Records. The employee was sanctioned; the CE revised policies, implemented log-in monitoring, and conducted security training. OCR issued corrective action guidance.

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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

Jul 1, 2013

Begins

Sep 20, 2013

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,009 affectedView incident

Name: Sierra View District Hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sierra View District Hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Jul 1, 2013 – Aug 31, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,009nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided substantive technical assistance and identified corrective actions: enterprise-wide risk analysis, risk management plan update, information access management monitoring.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Workforce member was sanctioned.
Breach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Implemented log-in monitoring.
Revised policies and procedures.
Conducted training on security awareness standard.
Changes made: Conduct and monitor a comprehensive, enterprise-wide risk analysis.
Update and monitor risk management plan.
Monitor information access management to ensure adequate safeguards of ePHI.
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: Sep 20, 2013
Raw hash: 79607255b81841a4bc45483a2d1070e9581fdf86132fbd71d77b8400b410cb95

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Reporting entitySierra View District Hospital

Victim entitySierra View District Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseWorkforce member was sanctioned.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing