FEDERALHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
Verity Health System of California, Inc.
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Full breach record for Verity Health System of California, Inc. →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.
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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_0c503f51cc8e8c33California State AGfiled 2019-01-25(1d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Verity Health System of California, Inc.norm: verity health system of california
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Verity Health System of California, Inc.norm: verity health system of california
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,988
- Data types
- PHIIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.