CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

2,121

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals →3 incidents on file

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Northern California reported to HHS on 2021-02-23 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2121 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee impermissibly accessed medical records and ePHI (names, DOB, phone, email, photos). The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, provided credit monitoring, and sanctioned the employee.

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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

Feb 23, 2021

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_0a465d2264e497d52021-02-23Verified

Name: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
norm: kaiser foundation hospitals
Domain: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
norm: kaiser foundation hospitals
Domain: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,121nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the CE
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Sanctioned the employee responsible for the breach
Changes made: Sanctioned the employee responsible for the breach
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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California State AGFeb 23 · first

HHS OCRFeb 23 · first · this page

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: Feb 23, 2021
Raw hash: 7bf6e94366f617d887f94dc035486afbb193900fef170257bb2a11249fc0f3df

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKaiser Foundation Hospitals

Victim entityKaiser Foundation Hospitals

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing