AccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Department of State Hospitals – Atascadero

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 15, 2024

Filed

Feb 28, 2024

To disclose

13 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Department of State Hospitals – Atascadero reported a data breach discovered on February 15, 2024. Leave and Activity Balance reports containing full Social Security Numbers and names were disseminated to staff for timesheet approval. The incident is classified as an error/misdelivery. The agency is investigating, has notified regulators, and is offering one year of identity monitoring to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Feb 15, 2024 → Notified Feb 22, 20247d ✓ CA 60-day OK13 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 13 days

Feb 15, 2024

Begins

Feb 15, 2024

Discovered

Feb 28, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

10 wks faster

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

Name: Department of State Hospitals – Atascadero
norm: department of state hospitals atascadero
Domain: dsh.ca.gov

Name: Department of State Hospitals – Atascadero
norm: department of state hospitals atascadero
Domain: dsh.ca.gov
Industry: HealthcarellmGovernmentllm

Discovered: Feb 15, 2024
Breach occurred: Feb 15, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 22, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Reported this breach to the California Office of Information Security and the California Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Investigating the breach and analyzing the electronic network to see whether the information has been improperly accessed
Reporting this breach to the California Office of Information Security and the California Office of the Attorney General
Offering identity monitoring services for one year at no cost
Changes made: Reviewing and revising procedures and practices to minimize the risk of recurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 days(13 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 7d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Feb 15, 2024
→ Notified: Feb 22, 2024
7d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Feb 15, 2024 → Notified: Feb 22, 2024	7d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-581641
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 28, 2024
Raw hash: e285e578cad208b466e32a30c566bc9196b2ed18f42107fcbeddedf8247780db

Reporting entityDepartment of State Hospitals – Atascadero

Victim entityDepartment of State Hospitals – Atascadero

Incidentdiscovered Feb 15, 2024

Stated responseInvestigating the breach and analyzing the electronic network to see whether the information has been improperly accessed

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov