AccidentalMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
California Department of Health Care Services
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Full breach record for California Department of Health Care Services →California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) disclosed a misdelivery incident involving Beneficiary Identification Cards (BIC) for Medi-Cal children. Between December 10 and 18, 2012, cards were mailed to the wrong households due to a programming error. Affected data included names, Client Index Numbers, dates of birth, and gender; Social Security Numbers were not included. DHCS discovered the error on December 19, 2012, and sent notification letters and replacement cards to affected families.
California clockDiscovered Dec 19, 2012 → Notified Dec 21, 20122d ✓ CA 60-day OK5 days 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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_9c350ebfc80e7745HHS OCRfiled 2012-12-23(1d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-37629
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 24, 2012
- Raw hash
- 52561bb725bfd28c2fb545f2d35d825e2366ac3b89c31cc77355d0be12602858
Reporting entity
- Name
- California Department of Health Care Servicesnorm: california department of health care
- Domain
- dhcs.ca.gov
Victim entity
- Name
- California Department of Health Care Servicesnorm: california department of health care
- Domain
- dhcs.ca.gov
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 19, 2012
- Materiality determined
- Dec 21, 2012
- Notification sent
- Dec 21, 2012
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 days(5 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 2d
- 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: Dec 19, 2012→ Notified: Dec 21, 20122d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.