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CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareEmail MisuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Kern Regional Center

bd_4f15b0331fba0ab5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 26, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

772

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Kern Regional Center →

Kern Regional Center reported to HHS on 2024-01-26 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 772 individuals. An employee emailed the PHI of 772 individuals to her personal email account. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, and treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and responded with additional administrative safeguards and workforce retraining.

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 26, 2024

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed772 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.