CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
California Department of Health Care Services
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Full breach record for California Department of Health Care Services →California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) reported to HHS on 2012-12-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,643 individuals. Due to a computer programming error in electronic mailing files, 2,705 Medi-Cal member ID cards were mailed to wrong households. PHI on the cards included names, dates of birth, genders, dates of issue, and Medi-Cal-assigned numbers. The CE halted mailings, deactivated and replaced the cards, and implemented new data transfer policies and mailing procedures. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.
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_5934b6056e3f724cCalifornia State AGfiled 2012-12-24(1d gap)Verified
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
- Dec 23, 2012
- Raw hash
- ed54421f8303c409955be9fd9d64797a33e4af3663fa66356ca00c2bf76ad180
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- California Department of Health Care Servicesnorm: california department of health care
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- California Department of Health Care Servicesnorm: california department of health care
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial ServicesllmGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,643
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — corrective action plan accepted; OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions
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.