DisclosureLens
CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Blue Shield of California

bd_cc80e6bec7216f43 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 29, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

93,921

Confidence

98%

Blue Shield of California (Health Plan, CA) reported to HHS on 2025-09-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 93,921 individuals. An employee mailed PHI — comprising demographic information — to wrong addresses. Breached information was on Paper/Films. No business associate was involved. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided complimentary credit monitoring, and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Sep 29, 2025

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed93,921 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.