HackingHealthcareHealthcareSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Torrance Memorial Medical Center

bd_efb5ec6d4f1056c5 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 6, 2020

Filed

Mar 6, 2020

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected · nationwide

3,4481 in this filing

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Torrance Memorial Medical Center →2 incidents on file

Torrance Memorial Medical Center notified Washington AG of a breach affecting 1 WA resident (3,448 total). An outside radiology vendor's server was unsecured from 6/20/2019 to 12/13/2019. Patient images and PHI (name, DOB, MRN) were potentially accessible. No evidence of actual access. Vendor secured server; Torrance Memorial provided HIPAA training and credit monitoring.

J jump to incidentP pin to compareR raw source

Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 200 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

Jun 20, 2019

Begins

Jan 6, 2020

Discovered

Mar 6, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_a46fee66a8f49c1b2020-03-06Verified
California State AGbd_b31cdd669119fc9c2020-03-06Verified

Name: Torrance Memorial Medical Center
norm: torrance memorial medical center

Name: Torrance Memorial Medical Center
norm: torrance memorial medical center
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jan 6, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 20, 2019 – Dec 13, 2019
Undetected for: 200 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 6, 2020
Affected individuals: 3,448state + nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Filed breach notification via the website of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Took immediate steps to investigate and address the issue
Provided business associate with additional training on HIPAA requirements
Revised policies and procedures
Holding the vendor accountable for raising their security standards
Offering identity theft monitoring and restoration services through First Watch ID for a period of 12 months at no cost
Changes made: Provided business associate with additional training on HIPAA requirements
Revised policies and procedures
Holding the vendor accountable for raising their security standards to be as stringent as Torrance Memorial's
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗

HHS OCRMar 6 · first

California State AGMar 6 · first

Washington State AGMar 6 · 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10537.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 6, 2020
Raw hash: dedb56319b0ed2df690a59a4cb1ec0fdc9706fad3c9a60ae3f9164b96ec3453d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityTorrance Memorial Medical Center

Victim entityTorrance Memorial Medical Center

Incidentdiscovered Jan 6, 2020

Stated responseTook immediate steps to investigate and address the issue

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com