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CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 15, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

18,416

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE →26 incidents on file

Blue Shield of California (California Physicians' Service) reported to HHS on 2019-02-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 18,416 individuals. Its business associate, Sharecare Health Data Services, LLC, was the victim of a cyber-attack. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and clinical information. Breached information was located on a Network Server. Affected individuals were notified and provided complimentary credit monitoring services.

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

Feb 15, 2019

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Part of Sharecare Health Data Services, LLC supply-chain incident (2019) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed18,416 affectedView incident

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.