CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisuse OtherCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Ventura County Health Care Agency

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 20, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

777

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Ventura County Health Care Agency →2 incidents on file

Ventura County Health Care Agency (CA) reported to HHS on 2016-09-20 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 777 individuals. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. An employee took home paperwork containing PHI, which was later recovered by an acquaintance of the employee and returned to the covered entity. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and the California Department of Public Health. Corrective actions included employee retraining, sanctioning the responsible employee, and issuing a facility-wide PHI removal prohibition memo. No business associate was involved.

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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

Sep 20, 2016

Filed

—

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed777 affectedView incident

Name: Ventura County Health Care Agency
norm: ventura county health care agency
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Ventura County Health Care Agency
norm: ventura county health care agency
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 777nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCRNotified California Department of Public HealthOCR obtained assurances of corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Notified the California Department of Public Health
Assigned all necessary employees for retraining
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Sent a memo to all necessary staff prohibiting the removal of PHI from the facility
Changes made: Employee retraining
Employee sanction
Policy memo prohibiting removal of PHI from facility
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: Sep 20, 2016
Raw hash: f0821682b7b6d6cce742f540413b70bba7940061993612267f2bb07d5c7c9f34

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Reporting entityVentura County Health Care Agency

Victim entityVentura County Health Care Agency

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing