CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationError OtherCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
L.A. Care Health Plan
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Full breach record for L.A. Care Health Plan →L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest publicly operated health plan, reported to HHS OCR on 2019-03-15 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure breach affecting 1,506 individuals, with breached information located on Paper/Films. OCR's investigation found systemic HIPAA Security Rule noncompliance, including failures in risk analysis, risk management, activity review, and ePHI security evaluations. LA Care agreed to a $1,300,000 settlement and a three-year corrective action plan monitored by OCR.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,506 affectedView incident
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
- Mar 15, 2019
- Raw hash
- b0edfdac40f5ce67739f506ac3d045ac0b367304675316d1509c3117e7b99162
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- L.A. Care Health Plannorm: la care health plan
- Domain
- lacare.org
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- L.A. Care Health Plannorm: la care health plan
- Domain
- lacare.org
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,506
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation initiated from large breach reportHHS OCR investigation initiated from media article regarding a separate security incidentSettlement agreement: LA Care agreed to pay $1,300,000Corrective action plan monitored for three years by OCR
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.