HackingData ExfiltratedCREDENTIALSPIILowContained
Public Health Institute
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Full breach record for Public Health Institute →Public Health Institute (PHI) disclosed a data breach affecting the California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP). On August 4, 2016, PHI discovered an unencrypted database containing user email addresses and passwords was accessible on the internet for approximately 30 days. The breach affected active and expired accounts for the CEHTP Water Boundary Tool, Geocoding Tool, and EHIB content management system. PHI contained the incident by removing the database from the internet, resetting passwords, and implementing bcrypt encryption.
California clockDiscovered Aug 4, 2016 → Notified Oct 5, 201662d ✗ CA 60-day late9 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-64216
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 5, 2016
- Raw hash
- 89b73f95f672961988de178f82155a1deb6f9ac9797bd1a10e2d80b0221cc493
Reporting entity
- Name
- Public Health Institutenorm: public health institute
- Domain
- phi.org
Victim entity
- Name
- Public Health Institutenorm: public health institute
- Domain
- phi.org
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 4, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 5, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- CREDENTIALSPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 9 weeks(62 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 62d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Aug 4, 2016→ Notified: Oct 5, 201662d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.