CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MetadataLowResolved

Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 2, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

845

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency →

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.

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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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 2, 2015

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_ea5a543c5b2c25492015-04-06 · +4dVerified

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 845nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Metadata
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Changed and strengthened password requirements.
Disabled all patients' health portal accounts.
Implemented new technical safeguards.
Required all affected patients to re-register with the online portal.
Revised and implemented new policies and procedures.
Sanctioned the workforce members involved.
Re-trained the entire workforce.
Changes made: Strengthened password requirements.
Disabled and reset patient portal accounts requiring re-registration.
Implemented new technical safeguards.
Revised policies and procedures.
Workforce sanctioning and retraining.
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRApr 2 · first · this page

California State AG+4d

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: Apr 2, 2015
Raw hash: 0238a38161f3cfa04f15599399839ae606a9059c9e4e0df81ba39478b4bb4423

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTulare County Health & Human Services Agency

Victim entityTulare County Health & Human Services Agency

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing