CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
The Guidance Center, Inc.
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Full breach record for The Guidance Center, Inc. →The Guidance Center (CA, Healthcare Provider) reported to HHS on 2019-10-28 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,189 individuals. A former employee impermissibly accessed numerous email accounts containing ePHI, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims information, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, implemented additional safeguards, retrained staff, and received OCR technical assistance on its security management process. Breached information located on Email.
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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_358b2d1e26150492California State AGfiled 2019-10-30(2d gap)Verified by operator
Source provenance
- 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
- Oct 28, 2019
- Raw hash
- c4f57458634de741d5eea21efa2254151ba9e9e1ab5a870027a1f8c287ee05b4
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Guidance Center, Inc.norm: the guidance center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The Guidance Center, Inc.norm: the guidance center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,189
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided technical assistance regarding security management process
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.