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Torrance Memorial Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 20, 2017

Filed

Jul 7, 2017

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

5state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Torrance Memorial Medical Center →2 incidents on file

Torrance Memorial Medical Center discovered on April 20, 2017 that an email security incident had allowed access to two staff members' email accounts containing work-related reports; forensic evidence indicates the attacks took place on April 18 and 19, 2017. The information in the affected emails may include names, Social Security numbers, addresses, health insurance information, dates of birth and treatment/diagnostic information; Torrance Memorial said it had no evidence of actual or attempted misuse and that it remained unclear whether the emails or attachments containing the information were accessed. Torrance Memorial reported the incident to the California Department of Public Health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the FBI, began mailing notice letters on June 19, 2017, and offered one year of credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services at no cost.

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 78 days

Apr 18, 2017

Begins

Apr 20, 2017

Discovered

Jul 7, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 18d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGJun 19 · first
Massachusetts State AGJun 19 · first
New Hampshire State AGJun 19 · first
HHS OCRJun 19 · first
California State AGJun 19 · first
Montana State AG+18d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 19 (MT), last Jul 7 (MT) — a 18-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.