CALIFORNIASocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
Gold Coast Health Plan
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Full breach record for Gold Coast Health Plan →Gold Coast Health Plan reported to HHS OCR on October 5, 2018 a Hacking/IT Incident (phishing) affecting 37,005 individuals. Phishing attacks compromised workforce members' email accounts. PHI exposed included names, dates of birth, Medi-Cal numbers, health plan names, claims information, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information. Breached information located in 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_b889665a2e62b2e1California State AGfiled 2018-10-05Verified 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 5, 2018
- Raw hash
- dedf035da3852a04278f3c1c4249b17daf03b431634f81a92179c91047e4eea8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Gold Coast Health Plannorm: gold coast health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Gold Coast Health Plannorm: gold coast health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 5, 2018
- Affected individuals
- 37,005
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Reported breach to HHS OCR on October 5, 2018Provided OCR with additional documentation including revised policies and procedures and new employee orientation packetOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
- Initial access
- phishing_link
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: Oct 5, 2018— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.