MisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)EmploymentHighActive

California Department of State Hospitals

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 15, 2021

Filed

Apr 5, 2021

To disclose

21 days

Affected

2,952state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for California Department of State Hospitals →3 incidents on file

The CA Department of State Hospitals (DSH) disclosed that an employee improperly accessed personal and health information of approximately 2,952 employees, former employees, and job applicants. The data included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, and health-related test results. The incident was discovered on March 15, 2021, during an investigation into the employee, who had previously been found to have improperly accessed patient and employee data in February 2021. The employee was placed on administrative leave, and the investigation is ongoing. No evidence of misuse of the compromised information has been found.

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California clockDiscovered Mar 15, 2021 → Notified Apr 5, 202121d ✓ CA 60-day OK21 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 21 days

Mar 15, 2021

Discovered

Apr 5, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_bef01021bc772a9b2021-03-17 · +19dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_cf89708cf713e4812021-03-17 · +19dVerified
California State AGbd_f0d4f93fd7d4c2f22021-05-11 · +36dCandidate

Name: California Department of State Hospitals
norm: california department of state hospitals
Domain: dsh.ca.gov

Name: California Department of State Hospitals
norm: california department of state hospitals
Domain: dsh.ca.gov
Industry: HealthcarellmGovernmentllm

Discovered: Mar 15, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 5, 2021
Affected individuals: 2,952state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Employment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified United States Health and Human Services, Office of Civil RightsNotified California Office of Information SecurityNotified California Office of Health Information IntegrityNotified California Highway PatrolNotified California Department of Public HealthNotified California Attorney General’s Office
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Placed the principal subject of the investigation on administrative leave pending completion of the investigation
Continues to analyze the electronic network to see whether the employee improperly accessed any other information
Cooperating with the law enforcement agency in conducting an investigation
Provided this update regarding this breach to the United States Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights, the California Office of Information Security, the California Office of Health Information Integrity, the California Highway Patrol, the California Department of Public Health, and the California Attorney General’s Office
Notifying all individuals whose Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) have been compromised
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 21d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Mar 15, 2021
→ Notified: Apr 5, 2021
21d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Mar 15, 2021 → Notified: Apr 5, 2021	21d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings

View merged incident ↗

California State AGMar 17 · first

HHS OCRMar 17 · first

California State AG+19d · this page

California State AG+55d

Pattern: first filing Mar 17 (CA), last May 11 (CA) — a 55-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.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-539698
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 5, 2021
Raw hash: f7ffc653e936f556c400c5b25b6e412ca24b0d7d82c8fb582742c02f2112541d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCalifornia Department of State Hospitals

Victim entityCalifornia Department of State Hospitals

Incidentdiscovered Mar 15, 2021

Stated responsePlaced the principal subject of the investigation on administrative leave pending completion of the investigation

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov