CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

The Guidance Center, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 28, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,189

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for The Guidance Center, Inc. →2 incidents on file

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.

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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

Oct 28, 2019

Filed

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

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_358b2d1e261504922019-10-30 · +2dVerified by operator

Name: The Guidance Center, Inc.
norm: the guidance center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Guidance Center, Inc.
norm: the guidance center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,189nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained employees
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Employee retraining conducted
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCROct 28 · first · this page

California State AG+2d

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: Oct 28, 2019
Raw hash: c4f57458634de741d5eea21efa2254151ba9e9e1ab5a870027a1f8c287ee05b4

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Guidance Center, Inc.

Victim entityThe Guidance Center, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing