CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Gardner Health Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 1, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

26,000

Confidence

99%

Full breach record for Gardner Health Services →2 incidents on file

Gardner Health Services (CA) reported to HHS on 2025-04-01 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 26,000 individuals. A business associate employee mistakenly mailed letters containing PHI — including names and addresses — to incorrect recipients (Paper/Films). The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice on its website, terminated the BA relationship, and provided HIPAA Breach Notification Rule guidance to the BA.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d

⚠ 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

Apr 1, 2025

Filed

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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.Confirmed26,000 affectedView incident

A leak claim by cl0p about this victim predates this filing by 32 days.View originating leak claim

Name: Gardner Health Services
norm: gardner health
Domain: gardnerhealthservices.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Gardner Health Services
norm: gardner health
Domain: gardnerhealthservices.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 26,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Terminated business relationship with business associate
Provided BA with technical assistance on HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requirements
Changes made: Ended business relationship with the business associate responsible for the mailing error
Provided technical assistance to BA regarding HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >30dHHS 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: Apr 1, 2025
Raw hash: dc6d2ad520973b0429dd216235afe2f3622b983aa98236da27c5ab11e652d6a8

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Reporting entityGardner Health Services

Victim entityGardner Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing