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CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowResolved

Hoyman Hong, M.D.

bd_d34c79e3057a516a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 17, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

720

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Hoyman Hong, M.D. →

Hoyman Hong, M.D. (CA) reported to HHS on 2021-03-17 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 720 individuals. An employee sent an email containing ePHI of 720 patients without using the blind carbon copy (BCC) feature, exposing names and email addresses. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. Remediation included workforce retraining and strengthened administrative 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

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Breach window unknown

Mar 17, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed720 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.