CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Berkeley Endocrine Clinic
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Full breach record for Berkeley Endocrine Clinic →Berkeley Endocrine Clinic reported to HHS OCR on 2016-05-24 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,370 individuals. The clinic inadvertently sent an email notification to 1,370 patients without blind-copying recipients, exposing patients' first and last names and email addresses. Breached information was located in Email. Following the breach, the CE revised email procedures, enhanced technical measures (including desktop encryption), and retrained staff. OCR's investigation led to enhanced ePHI safeguarding practices.
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_7afd3554941b3508California State AGfiled 2016-05-23(1d gap)Verified
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
- May 24, 2016
- Raw hash
- fa7ab1c866c0c7ae2c3f38c520e77e323ca770df2a1e1e93f33936d55c436ba8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Berkeley Endocrine Clinicnorm: berkeley endocrine clinic
Victim entity
- Name
- Berkeley Endocrine Clinicnorm: berkeley endocrine clinic
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,370
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR investigation; resulted in CE enhancing practices for safeguarding ePHI
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.