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Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency

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Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency (CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-04-02 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 845 individuals. A workforce member emailed patients information about logging into the CE's healthcare portal without blind-copying recipients or encrypting the emails, thereby exposing every patient's email address. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Corrective actions included password hardening, portal account resets, new technical safeguards, policy revisions, and workforce retraining. OCR provided technical assistance and obtained documented assurances of remediation.

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.

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bd_ea5a543c5b2c2549California State AGfiled 2015-04-06(4d gap)Verified

Source provenance

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: Apr 2, 2015
Raw hash: 0238a38161f3cfa04f15599399839ae606a9059c9e4e0df81ba39478b4bb4423

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency
norm: tulare county health human services agency
Domain: tchhsa.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency
norm: tulare county health human services agency
Domain: tchhsa.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 845
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMETADATA
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule and obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions.
Initial access: insider_action

Compliance

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

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.