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CALIFORNIASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

GOLDEN VALLEY HEALTH CENTERS

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 20, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

38,628

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for GOLDEN VALLEY HEALTH CENTERS →

Golden Valley Health Centers reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 38,268 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, claims information, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications. During the investigation, OCR provided the CE with technical assistance.

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

Mar 20, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
California State AGMar 20 · first
HHS OCRMar 20 · 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.