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Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 2, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

25,000

Confidence

94%
Full breach record for Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency →

Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency (CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-09-02 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting approximately 25,000 individuals, with breached information located on Paper/Films. The breach was triggered by a break-in at the CE's storage area. A subsequent internal investigation with law enforcement determined no actual breach of paper records occurred. OCR provided technical assistance; the CE added physical safeguards, updated HIPAA policies, and trained staff.

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

Sep 2, 2016

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed25,000 affectedView incident

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.