CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

California Physicians' Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 9, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

4,700,000

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for California Physicians' Services →25 incidents on file

Blue Shield of California reported to HHS on 2025-04-09 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,700,000 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Google Analytics was misconfigured, transmitting PHI to Google.

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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

Apr 9, 2025

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_eb49b90f0e960bbc2025-04-09Verified by operator

Name: California Physicians' Services
norm: california physicians
Domain: blueshieldca.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: California Physicians' Services
norm: california physicians
Domain: blueshieldca.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,700,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Googlebusiness associate

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice on its website
Implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect PHI
Discontinued the use of tracking technologies on authenticated pages without a business associate agreement in place
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect PHI
Discontinued the use of tracking technologies on authenticated pages without a business associate agreement in place
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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California State AGApr 9 · first

HHS OCRApr 9 · first · this page

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: Apr 9, 2025
Raw hash: 39dac6eeff164bce73b094ab0dfa9335584398a9cf41ecf4c6b087f745d34060

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCalifornia Physicians' Services

Victim entityCalifornia Physicians' Services

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing