HackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

California Health & Wellness

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 25, 2021

Filed

Mar 25, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for California Health & Wellness →

California Health & Wellness notified members that their personal information may have been accessed via a cyber attack on their vendor, Accellion. The compromise occurred between January 7 and January 25, 2021, and was discovered on January 25, 2021. Affected data includes names, addresses, dates of birth, insurance IDs, and health information. CHW ceased using Accellion's services and offered one year of identity protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 18 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 59 days

Jan 7, 2021

Begins

Jan 25, 2021

Discovered

Mar 25, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Part of Accellion supply-chain incident (2021) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_9627030da649c3922021-03-25Verified

Name: California Health & Wellness
norm: california health wellness

Name: California Health & Wellness
norm: california health wellness
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 25, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 7, 2021 – Jan 25, 2021
Undetected for: 18 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Accellion is coordinating its incident response with law enforcement authorities, including the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Third party: via Accellion
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Activated our incident response plan and worked with Accellion to conduct our investigation
Analyzed the files involved in the incident so we could distribute notification to affected individuals as quickly as possible
Stopped using Accellion’s services and removed all of our data files from its system
Reviewed our other file transfer service processes and tools to ensure they are not at risk to a similar attack
Providing one year of free identity protection service through IDX®
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRMar 25 · first

California State AGMar 25 · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-539502
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 25, 2021
Raw hash: 40fec7294efc8521e4d2da0655cd613cf25b081d70be3790ea95aeea6ba238c4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCalifornia Health & Wellness

Victim entityCalifornia Health & Wellness

Incidentdiscovered Jan 25, 2021

Stated responseActivated our incident response plan and worked with Accellion to conduct our investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov