HackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Verity Medical Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 16, 2019

Filed

Mar 22, 2019

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Verity Medical Foundation →4 incidents on file

On January 16, 2019, Verity Medical Foundation reported that a third party compromised an employee's Microsoft 365 email account for several hours. The attacker sent emails with malicious links to obtain credentials. The intruder had access to email folders containing health information, including names, dates of birth, SSNs, driver's licenses, and treatment details. VMF terminated access, disabled accounts, and offered one year of credit monitoring. No financial account numbers were accessed.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 16, 2019 → Notified Mar 11, 201954d ✓ CA 60-day OK9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 65 days

Jan 16, 2019

Begins

Jan 16, 2019

Discovered

Mar 22, 2019

Filed

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on median

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Verity Medical Foundation
norm: verity medical
Domain: sanjosemed.com

Name: Verity Medical Foundation
norm: verity medical
Domain: sanjosemed.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jan 16, 2019
Breach occurred: Jan 16, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 11, 2019
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email CollectionT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Terminated the unauthorized access
Disabled the email account
Disconnected the device from the network
Removed all unauthorized emails sent to Foundation or affiliated employees
Disabled all email accounts where the user clicked on the link before the email was deleted
Provided individual counseling and re-education to the individuals involved
Deploying a new mandatory training module for all employees
Initiated a project to enhance security, including mandating password resets for all employees and disabling unknown URLs
Offering you the opportunity to enroll at no cost to you in an identity and credit monitoring service for one year
Changes made: Provided individual counseling and re-education to the individuals involved
Deploying a new mandatory training module for all employees
Initiated a project to enhance security, including mandating password resets for all employees and disabling unknown URLs
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(65 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 54d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 16, 2019
→ Notified: Mar 11, 2019
54d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 16, 2019 → Notified: Mar 11, 2019	54d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-145668
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 22, 2019
Raw hash: afcab2ec2b03d107406cc6ac628157099a670ad2da97ce26549509ca267c76bc

Reporting entityVerity Medical Foundation

Victim entityVerity Medical Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Jan 16, 2019

Stated responseTerminated the unauthorized access

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov