California Department of State Hospitals - Coalinga
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Full breach record for California Department of State Hospitals - Coalinga →Department of State Hospitals - Coalinga disclosed a data breach involving the unauthorized disclosure of patient rosters to the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. The incident, discovered around August 12, 2021, involved the provision of patient names, case numbers, birth dates, and commitment details to the Court Clerk for filing fee waiver eligibility determinations. No SSNs or financial data were included. DSH-C notified affected individuals, engaged forensic and legal counsel, and reported the breach to multiple state and federal regulators including HHS OCR and the California DOJ. Remediation includes reviewing and revising patient record procedures.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_a65c2407e6b69419HHS OCRfiled 2021-09-03Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-544919
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 3, 2021
- Raw hash
- 82c2efeb15fe6c4653621529cc8854ec9958b667e49269a2737e8a8d1c027c3a
Reporting entity
- Name
- California Department of State Hospitals - Coalinganorm: california department of state hospitals coalinga
- Domain
- dsh.ca.gov
Victim entity
- Name
- California Department of State Hospitals - Coalinganorm: california department of state hospitals coalinga
- Domain
- dsh.ca.gov
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 12, 2021
- Materiality determined
- Aug 30, 2021
- Notification sent
- Aug 13, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Reported this breach to the California Office of Information SecurityReported this breach to the California Highway PatrolReported this breach to the U.S. Health and Human Services/Office of Civil RightsReported this breach to the California Department of Public HealthReported this breach to the California Department of JusticeReported this breach to the California Office of Health Information Integrity
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 22 days(22 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 1d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Aug 12, 2021→ Notified: Aug 13, 20211d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.