HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Verity Medical Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 28, 2018

Filed

Jan 28, 2019

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Verity Medical Foundation →4 incidents on file

On November 28, 2018, Verity Medical Foundation reported that a third party compromised an employee's Microsoft 365 email account for approximately 1.5 hours. The attacker sent emails with malicious Docusign links to obtain credentials. The intruder had access to the employee's email folders, which contained personal information including names, dates of birth, social security numbers, phone numbers, and addresses. The Foundation terminated access, disabled the account, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Nov 28, 2018 → Notified Jan 26, 201959d ✓ CA 60-day OK9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 61 days

Nov 28, 2018

Begins

Nov 28, 2018

Discovered

Jan 28, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_b3c7f81fcb23ac5b2019-02-04 · +7dVerified

Name: Verity Medical Foundation
norm: verity medical
Domain: sanjosemed.com

Name: Verity Medical Foundation
norm: verity medical
Domain: sanjosemed.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Nov 28, 2018
Breach occurred: Nov 28, 2018
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 26, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email CollectionT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Terminated the unauthorized access
Disabled the email account
Disconnected the device from the network
Removed all unauthorized emails sent to Foundation or affiliated employees
Disabled all email accounts where the user clicked on the link before the email was deleted
Provided individual counseling and re-education to the individuals involved
Deploying a new mandatory training module for all employees
Initiated a project to enhance security, including mandating password resets for all employees and disabling unknown URLs
Offering you the opportunity to enroll at no cost to you in an identity and credit monitoring service for one year
Changes made: Provided individual counseling and re-education to the individuals involved
Deploying a new mandatory training module for all employees
Initiated a project to enhance security, including mandating password resets for all employees and disabling unknown URLs
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(61 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 59d
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: Nov 28, 2018
→ Notified: Jan 26, 2019
59d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Nov 28, 2018 → Notified: Jan 26, 2019	59d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGJan 28 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Jan 28 (CA), last Feb 4 (MA) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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/sb24-144154
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 28, 2019
Raw hash: e96c5b96fd1a6e707f3c846414e3c6ca7f242bcf680a3159c2cbd6b98f2f4514

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVerity Medical Foundation

Victim entityVerity Medical Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Nov 28, 2018

Stated responseTerminated the unauthorized access

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov