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

Kern Regional Center

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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.

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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

Jan 26, 2024

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.Confirmed772 affectedView incident

Name: Kern Regional Center
norm: kern regional center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Kern Regional Center
norm: kern regional center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 772nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
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: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained workforce
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Workforce retraining conducted
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: Jan 26, 2024
Raw hash: 44bc31d56642f2180885a56f491088cfac693336818e78251dafd08b7d020366

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Reporting entityKern Regional Center

Victim entityKern Regional Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing