AccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowResolved

California Correctional Health Care Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 26, 2022

Filed

Jul 8, 2022

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

500scope not determined

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for California Correctional Health Care Services →13 incidents on file

On May 26, 2022, an email containing personal information of more than 500 CCHCS employees was disclosed to five unauthorized CCHCS CHCF employees. The data included names, COVID-19 testing results, vaccine status, booster dates, and religious accommodation status. CCHCS recalled the email, purged it from recipient accounts, and mandated security training for responsible staff.

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California clockDiscovered May 26, 2022 → Notified Jul 5, 202240d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

May 26, 2022

Begins

May 26, 2022

Discovered

Jul 8, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed500 affectedView incident

Name: California Correctional Health Care Services
norm: california correctional health care

Name: California Correctional Health Care Services
norm: california correctional health care
Industry: HealthcarellmGovernmentllm

Discovered: May 26, 2022
Breach occurred: May 26, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 5, 2022
Affected individuals: 500scope not determined
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Initiating a recall of the email containing your personal information
Instructing the unintended recipients to not print, copy, or further disclose the information
Coordinating with the Information Security Office (ISO) to completely purge these emails from the recipient’s email accounts
Required the staff responsible to take mandatory security and privacy mitigation training
Changes made: Evaluating additional security measures to further enhance our protocols for the protection of personal information
Implementing safeguards designed to prevent a recurrence of such disclosures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 40d
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: May 26, 2022
→ Notified: Jul 5, 2022
40d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 26, 2022 → Notified: Jul 5, 2022	40d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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/sb24-555103
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 8, 2022
Raw hash: 56210c960e242cf872d4d5e67b26f737e07f01420e8e834e4fcd10d808893190

Reporting entityCalifornia Correctional Health Care Services

Victim entityCalifornia Correctional Health Care Services

Incidentdiscovered May 26, 2022

Stated responseInitiating a recall of the email containing your personal information

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov