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CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)MetadataLowResolved

Alicia Ann Oswald

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 9, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

800

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Alicia Ann Oswald →

Dr. Alicia Ann Oswald (CA healthcare provider) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-01-09 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting ~800 individuals. She sent group emails to patients without using BCC, inadvertently exposing recipient email addresses. Breached information was located in Email. In response, she re-sent using BCC, apologized to patients, reported to the CA State Board, adopted improved email software, and deployed practice software to safeguard PHI. OCR confirmed corrective actions and provided HIPAA Breach Notification Rule guidance.

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

Jan 9, 2018

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed800 affectedView incident

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.