AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 18, 2015

Filed

Mar 11, 2015

To disclose

21 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center →

Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center disclosed that a staff member inadvertently sent patient medical billing information, including Social Security numbers and demographic data, to a billing vendor for a different Providence facility. The error was discovered on February 18, 2015. The organization is working with the vendor to correct billings and refund payments. No malicious actor was involved; this was a clerical error resulting in misdirected data.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 109 days

discovery → filing · 21 days

Nov 1, 2014

Begins

Feb 18, 2015

Discovered

Mar 11, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
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Name: Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
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Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Feb 18, 2015
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2014
Undetected for: 109 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal
Third party: via Billing vendor (trusted partner)

During the incident: Working diligently with the billing company to remedy the incorrect billings and to refund any payments that were made
Engaged ID Experts to provide data breach and recovery support
Reviewing our processes carefully and looking for the best ways to reduce the risk of this happening again
Changes made: Reviewing our processes carefully and looking for the best ways to reduce the risk of this happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 days(21 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-48785
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 11, 2015
Raw hash: 1ea213cce681507b62842eded9067dd8f3bd51c5e7b82b46daf5ff940de55b9c

Reporting entityProvidence Saint Joseph Medical Center

Victim entityProvidence Saint Joseph Medical Center

Incidentdiscovered Feb 18, 2015

Stated responseWorking diligently with the billing company to remedy the incorrect billings and to refund any payments that were made

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov