AccidentalMisdeliveryData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
WestCoast Children's Clinic
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Full breach record for WestCoast Children's Clinic →WestCoast Children's Clinic experienced a data breach on November 20, 2012, when a referral document containing PHI, SSNs, and PII was unintentionally emailed to an unauthorized county social worker. The clinic discovered the error on November 27, 2012, and ensured the recipient permanently deleted the data. The clinic reported the incident to the California Attorney General and HHS, conducted a self-audit, changed referral practices, and retrained staff.
California clockDiscovered Nov 27, 2012 → Notified Nov 29, 20122d ✓ CA 60-day OK2 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-37088
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 29, 2012
- Raw hash
- 6960348ccaad762ca327eb614b42b12b7adc5a8d88f3dcfe3cf794340a714f3f
Reporting entity
- Name
- WestCoast Children's Clinicnorm: westcoast children s clinic
- Domain
- westcoastcc.org
Victim entity
- Name
- WestCoast Children's Clinicnorm: westcoast children s clinic
- Domain
- westcoastcc.org
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 27, 2012
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Nov 29, 2012
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1535 Unauthorized Access to Cloud Storage
- Regulator citations
- Reported this breach to California Office of the Attorney GeneralWill report this breach to the United States Department of Health & Human Services
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 2 days(2 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: Nov 27, 2012→ Notified: Nov 29, 20122d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.