CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Blue Shield of California

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 29, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

607

Confidence

68%

Blue Shield of California reported to HHS on 2025-09-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 607 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A coding issue resulted in PHI (names, DOBs, SSNs) being mailed to the wrong individuals. The BA fixed the coding issue and provided free credit monitoring.

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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

Sep 29, 2025

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.Confirmed607 affectedView incident

Name: Blue Shield of California
norm: blue shield of california
Domain: blueshieldca.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Blue Shield of California
norm: blue shield of california
Domain: blueshieldca.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 607nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the BA regarding the HIPAA Rules

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Fixed the coding issue
Provided the affected individuals with free credit monitoring
Changes made: Fixed the coding issue
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 29, 2025
Raw hash: 30083af63708ffaa33475dc8ead2c92752d5acb1dc2a74d6b0e3dfc5bb486a3b

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Reporting entityBlue Shield of California

Victim entityBlue Shield of California

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing