AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Alcon Vision, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 5, 2021

Filed

Nov 16, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Alcon Vision, LLC →

Alcon Vision, LLC disclosed that on October 5, 2021, a technical error caused an email sent to health care providers to inadvertently include limited patient information (name, device serial number, date of implant, treating physician) for patients who received Alcon intraocular lens implants, rather than only the provider's own patients. No financial information or SSNs were involved. Alcon notified providers to delete the data and reviewed internal processes.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 5, 2021 → Notified Nov 15, 202141d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Oct 5, 2021

Begins

Oct 5, 2021

Discovered

Nov 16, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

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

Name: Alcon Vision, LLC
norm: alcon vision

Name: Alcon Vision, LLC
norm: alcon vision
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Oct 5, 2021
Breach occurred: Oct 5, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 15, 2021
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown

During the incident: Notified all of the health care providers who received the communication that they should delete the information that was inadvertently sent to them
Immediately began reviewing our internal processes and procedures to determine the sources of the technical error and correct it
Changes made: Reviewing our internal processes and procedures to determine the sources of the technical error and correct it
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 41d
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: Oct 5, 2021
→ Notified: Nov 15, 2021
41d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 5, 2021 → Notified: Nov 15, 2021	41d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-547637
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 16, 2021
Raw hash: 50a7459946452225e65d2a548b450634f3eb9097541372d89adc1f4c58c671d6

Reporting entityAlcon Vision, LLC

Victim entityAlcon Vision, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Oct 5, 2021

Stated responseNotified all of the health care providers who received the communication that they should delete the information that was inadvertently sent to them

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov