CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Verity Health System of California, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 26, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

2,988

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Verity Health System of California, Inc. →3 incidents on file

On January 26, 2019, Verity Health System of California, Inc. reported a hacking incident to HHS affecting 2,988 individuals. An unauthorized third party gained access to an employee's email account containing protected health information, including demographic, clinical, and financial data. The information was located on an email server. In response, the company implemented multi-factor authentication, enhanced password policies, and provided additional workforce training on identifying phishing attempts.

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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 26, 2019

Filed

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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

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_0c503f51cc8e8c332019-01-25 · +1dCandidate

Name: Verity Health System of California, Inc.
norm: verity health system of california
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Verity Health System of California, Inc.
norm: verity health system of california
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,988nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External

Changes made: Training workforce members to identify phishing attempts
Implementing multi-factor authentication for email
Mandating changes to all users passwords
Increasing the required frequency of workforce member password changes
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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California State AGJan 25 · first

HHS OCR+1d · this page

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://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Jan 26, 2019
Raw hash: cf16a2391a422e53c585b3cd03e062b08562e3d7daa5031608b34518ce3c87a9

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVerity Health System of California, Inc.

Victim entityVerity Health System of California, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTraining workforce members to identify phishing attempts

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing