Social EngineeringHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowContained

Nemadji Research Corporation

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 28, 2019

Filed

Jul 8, 2019

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Nemadji Research Corporation →

Nemadji Research Corporation, a business associate for the County of Los Angeles providing patient eligibility and billing services, experienced a data breach on March 28, 2019. An employee fell victim to a phishing email, compromising one email account used for County Department of Health Services communications. Personal and health information (PHI) of patients may have been exposed. Nemadji notified the FBI, CA AG, and HHS OCR, and offered one year of identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 102 days

Mar 28, 2019

Begins

Mar 28, 2019

Discovered

Jul 8, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_88721c67d6a716062019-07-08Verified

Name: Nemadji Research Corporation
norm: nemadji research

Name: Nemadji Research Corporation
norm: nemadji research
Also named: Nemadji Research Corporationdba oflegal entity
California Reimbursement Enterprisesdba oftrade name
Industry: HealthcarellmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 28, 2019
Breach occurred: Mar 28, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Federal Bureau of InvestigationNotified the State Attorney General’s OfficeNotified the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Took steps to prevent further access
Working closely with cybersecurity vendors
Initiated an administrative review
Reviewed and revised processes to enhance security
Implemented additional controls designed to prevent the recurrence of such an incident
Enhanced our workforce training to identify and respond to phishing emails
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Notified the State Attorney General’s Office
Notified the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights
Changes made: Reviewed and revised processes to enhance security
Implemented additional controls designed to prevent the recurrence of such an incident
Enhanced our workforce training to identify and respond to phishing emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(102 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRJul 8 · first

California State AGJul 8 · 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.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-148744
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 8, 2019
Raw hash: 1fe5c8373e904002f58906efc0d2a0dadca639f73f47a0ff26d314caf7d0aac9

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNemadji Research Corporation

Victim entityNemadji Research Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Mar 28, 2019

Stated responseTook steps to prevent further access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov