Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Foundation Medicine, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 14, 2020

Filed

Mar 13, 2020

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Foundation Medicine, Inc. →

Foundation Medicine, Inc. notified patients that an unauthorized user accessed an employee's email account via phishing between December 17, 2019, and January 14, 2020. The incident may have exposed protected health information, including names, dates of birth, and test details. Financial information and SSNs were not involved. The company retained a forensics firm and secured the account.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 14, 2020 → Notified Mar 1, 202047d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 28 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Dec 17, 2019

Begins

Jan 14, 2020

Discovered

Mar 13, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

HHS OCRbd_4d029767783c6aec2020-03-13Verified

Name: Foundation Medicine, Inc.
norm: foundation medicine
Domain: foundationmedicine.com

Name: Foundation Medicine, Inc.
norm: foundation medicine
Domain: foundationmedicine.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jan 14, 2020
Breach occurred: Dec 17, 2019 – Jan 14, 2020
Undetected for: 28 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 1, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Promptly opened an investigation
Retained a forensics firm to assist us
Took steps to secure the account
The employee’s password was promptly changed
Changes made: Institute measures to prevent this from happening in the future, including through additional education for our workforce about how to identify suspicious communications
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 47d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 14, 2020
→ Notified: Mar 1, 2020
47d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 14, 2020 → Notified: Mar 1, 2020	47d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRMar 13 · first

California State AGMar 13 · first · this page

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-188282
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 13, 2020
Raw hash: fbff097bb61579cce9584f9964a2ec503d170159ba3407462cea52195f19a62c

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFoundation Medicine, Inc.

Victim entityFoundation Medicine, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 14, 2020

Stated responsePromptly opened an investigation

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov