CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Verity Health System of California, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 3, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

662

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Verity Health System of California, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Verity Health System of California, Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-05-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 662 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An unauthorized party accessed a workforce member’s email account containing PHI including demographic, clinical, and health plan information.

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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

May 3, 2019

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.Confirmed662 affectedView incident

Name: Verity Health System of California, Inc.
norm: verity health system of california
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Verity Health System of California, Inc.
norm: verity health system of california
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 662nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained evidence of safeguards implemented prior to the breach
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Strengthened safeguards by implementing multi-factor authentication for its email account
Applied a mandatory password change for all users
Increased the required frequency of workforce member password changes
Trained workforce members to identify phishing attempts
Changes made: Implemented multi-factor authentication for email accounts
Enforced mandatory password changes for all users
Increased password change frequency requirements
Conducted phishing awareness training for workforce members
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: May 3, 2019
Raw hash: bafe47aca5c8e0bb20cc8f483fbedc958f1011eaf6e014d0441978806d70ec0f

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Reporting entityVerity Health System of California, Inc.

Victim entityVerity Health System of California, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseStrengthened safeguards by implementing multi-factor authentication for its email account

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing