PENNSYLVANIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHIHighContained

ELWYN CALIFORNIA

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 21, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

16,579

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for ELWYN CALIFORNIA →2 incidents on file

Elwyn reported to HHS on 2020-08-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 16,579 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme compromising ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, driver's license numbers, SSNs, financial info, diagnoses, lab results, and medications.

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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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Aug 21, 2020

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed16,579 affectedView incident

Name: ELWYN CALIFORNIA
norm: elwyn california
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: ELWYN CALIFORNIA
norm: elwyn california
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16,579nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)PHI
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
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: Aug 21, 2020
Raw hash: 36e1e55e25d3d0d97f3ba9209325777b0dd8cede7ae54943f256ca25aaf24f0e

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Reporting entityELWYN CALIFORNIA

Victim entityELWYN CALIFORNIA

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing