CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 20, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

720

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC. →15 incidents on file

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan reported to HHS on 2017-10-20 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 720 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A business associate superimposed patient addresses during a batch mailing of outreach letters, resulting in 720 patients receiving letters intended for others. Demographic information (names and addresses) was exposed. Corrective actions included implementing secondary Quality Assurance checks and adding a CE manager for final sign-off.

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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

Oct 20, 2017

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_cf8d834f17f7de4b2017-10-20Verified by operator

Name: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.
norm: kaiser foundation health plan
Domain: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.
norm: kaiser foundation health plan
Domain: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 720nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Worked with the BA to ensure that secondary Quality Assurance checks by the BA against all source files are now in place
Added a manager from the CE to do final checks and sign-off on lists prior to letters being mailed
Changes made: Implemented secondary Quality Assurance checks by the BA against all source files
Added a manager from the CE to do final checks and sign-off on lists prior to letters being mailed
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 AGOct 20 · first

HHS OCROct 20 · first · 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: Oct 20, 2017
Raw hash: 230ad6e638ac83853c91e8c7208a61913f0808763e3f29013b23ba93a1cb3dc0

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.

Victim entityKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing