CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountPIIMediumResolved

Kaiser Foundation Healthplan, Inc. of Southern California

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 6, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

3,044

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Kaiser Foundation Healthplan, Inc. of Southern California →3 incidents on file

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. of Southern California (Kaiser Permanente) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-11-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,044 individuals. An error in the KP website's configuration settings allowed some users to view the PHI of other members. Breached information resided on a Network Server and included names, addresses, dates of birth, claims information, clinical information, financial information, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. KP remediated by creating a corrective action plan, retraining staff, and implementing additional safeguards. OCR provided Security Rule guidance.

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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

Nov 6, 2016

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.Confirmed3,044 affectedView incident

Name: Kaiser Foundation Healthplan, Inc. of Southern California
norm: kaiser foundation healthplan inc of southern california
Domain: kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Kaiser Foundation Healthplan, Inc. of Southern California
norm: kaiser foundation healthplan inc of southern california
Domain: kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,044nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountPII
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Regulator citations: OCR provided Kaiser Permanente with technical guidance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule, including risk analysis and risk management processes and procedures.

During the incident: Created a corrective action plan to mitigate future misconfiguration errors.
Retrained staff.
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.
Changes made: Corrective action plan for website configuration settings
Staff retraining
Additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
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: Nov 6, 2016
Raw hash: 0aeac15637a3e62583c3a678ac95e9f4d856c285df4a62969830e5d86ee34a5c

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Reporting entityKaiser Foundation Healthplan, Inc. of Southern California

Victim entityKaiser Foundation Healthplan, Inc. of Southern California

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseCreated a corrective action plan to mitigate future misconfiguration errors.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing