CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationError OtherCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

L.A. Care Health Plan

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$1.30M

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 15, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,506

Confidence

94%

Full breach record for L.A. Care Health Plan →6 incidents on file

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.

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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

Mar 15, 2019

Filed

—

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.Confirmed1,506 affectedView incident

Name: L.A. Care Health Plan
norm: la care health plan
Domain: lacare.org
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: L.A. Care Health Plan
norm: la care health plan
Domain: lacare.org
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,506nationwide
Data types: Health (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
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

During the incident: Agreed to $1,300,000 monetary settlement with HHS OCR
Implemented corrective action plan monitored by OCR for three years
Conducting accurate and thorough risk analysis for ePHI
Implementing risk management plan to address identified risks and vulnerabilities
Implementing and distributing policies and procedures for risk analysis and risk management
Reporting to HHS on environmental and operational changes affecting ePHI security
Reporting to HHS within 30 days when workforce members fail to comply with HIPAA Rules
Changes made: Risk analysis and risk management plan implemented
Policies and procedures for risk analysis distributed
Activity review procedures for information systems improved
Hardware, software, and procedural mechanisms for activity logging to be implemented
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.

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: Mar 15, 2019
Raw hash: b0edfdac40f5ce67739f506ac3d045ac0b367304675316d1509c3117e7b99162

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Reporting entityL.A. Care Health Plan

Victim entityL.A. Care Health Plan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAgreed to $1,300,000 monetary settlement with HHS OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing