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CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Watsonville Chiropractic, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 17, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

829

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Watsonville Chiropractic, Inc. →

Watsonville Chiropractic, Inc. reported to HHS on 2016-11-17 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 829 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. The covered entity was notified by its business associate, EMR4all, that its storage account was misconfigured and accessible to unauthorized external persons. PHI exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. Affected individuals were notified, offered one year of credit monitoring, and a toll-free assistance line was established. The CE has since ceased operations.

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

Nov 17, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
California State AGNov 17 · first
HHS OCRNov 17 · first · this page

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.