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County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health

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Full breach record for County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health →

County of Los Angeles Departments of Health Services and Public Health reported to HHS on 2024-04-25 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing scheme) affecting 252,856 individuals. Multiple employees were targeted via phishing, exposing PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license and Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses, conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified affected individuals, media, and HHS, and offered credit monitoring. Staff were retrained on email security and additional technical safeguards were implemented.

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.

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bd_f483ba0f0ae3054aCalifornia State AGfiled 2024-04-25Candidate

Source provenance

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: Apr 25, 2024
Raw hash: 853962ca2a67c2589e6f6d6dbdfa6d7d801bbf5fe2563972b40b5c3c1b4e823e

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health
norm: county of los angeles department of public health
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health
norm: county of los angeles department of public health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 252,856
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

Compliance

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

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.