CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseData MishandlingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Sutter Health East Bay Region

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 5, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

4,479

Confidence

95%

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Sutter Health East Bay Region (CA) reported to HHS on 2013-07-05 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,479 individuals. PHI was stolen by a workforce member of its business associate (BA) and later discovered by the Alameda County Sheriff's office during an unrelated investigation. The stolen data included names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, and other identifiers belonging to patients of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Sutter Delta Medical Center, and Eden Medical Center. The covered entity provided notification and credit monitoring, conducted forensic investigations, and implemented data loss prevention technology.

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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

Jul 5, 2013

Filed

—

No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,479 affectedView incident

Name: Sutter Health East Bay Region
norm: sutter health east bay region
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Sutter Health East Bay Region
norm: sutter health east bay region
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,479nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity implemented corrective actions including internal and external forensics investigations and data loss prevention technology.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS, media, and affected individuals.
One year of free credit monitoring provided to affected individuals.
Internal forensics investigation conducted.
External forensics firm hired.
Data loss prevention technology fully implemented.
Workforce member responsible for breach is no longer employed by the business associate.
Changes made: Implemented data loss prevention technology.
Terminated employment of the workforce member responsible for the breach.
Engaged external forensics firm.
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.

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: Jul 5, 2013
Raw hash: 084725a27036ddaba0511e619983e8cf29311fa986a9df664a8b66256e3444bf

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Reporting entitySutter Health East Bay Region

Victim entitySutter Health East Bay Region

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS, media, and affected individuals.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing