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Verity Medical Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jan 11, 2017

To disclose

Affected

10,164

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Verity Medical Foundation4 incidents on file

Verity Medical Foundation (CA) reported to HHS on 2017-01-11 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 10,164 individuals. One of its websites (www.sanjosemed.com) was compromised and used to distribute malware to visitors. Affected individuals were patients of San Jose Medical Group (joined 2017). PHI involved: names, addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and last 4 digits of credit card numbers. Breached information located on Network Server. Website was immediately disabled upon discovery; notifications sent to HHS, individuals, and media. OCR obtained corrective-action assurances.

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

Jan 11, 2017

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

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRJan 11 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 11 (CA), last Feb 7 (CA) — a 27-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.