CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
Palomar Health, Privacy Manager Breach
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Full breach record for Palomar Health, Privacy Manager Breach →Palomar Health (CA) reported to HHS on 2014-03-28 a Theft affecting 5,499 individuals. A workforce member's car was broken into, resulting in the theft of two unencrypted flash drives containing PHI, including names, dates of birth, diagnoses/treatment information, insurance information, and some Medicare numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media; provided credit monitoring; sanctioned and retrained the involved workforce member; and implemented a USB encryption lockdown project. OCR's investigation resulted in improved HIPAA practices.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,499 affectedView incident
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
- Mar 28, 2014
- Raw hash
- f755190315884c51c45e73c4dc263ca83687637d7a46c347966c479fcd362d61
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Palomar Health, Privacy Manager Breachnorm: palomar health privacy manager breach
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Palomar Health, Privacy Manager Breachnorm: palomar health privacy manager breach
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 5,499
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation resulted in improved HIPAA practices at the covered entity
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.