Pacific Alliance Medical Center

Pacific Alliance Medical Center (CA) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-08-10 a Hacking/IT Incident (malware/ransomware attack) affecting 266,123 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI exposed included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver's license information, claims information, diagnoses, medications, lab results, and medical images. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Following OCR's investigation, the CE strengthened administrative and technical safeguards to enhance protection of PHI.

Affected (this filing): 266,123

California state AG breach notification sample for Pacific Alliance Medical Center dated June 14, 2017. The filing is a sample form; the attached PDF contains encoded text rather than readable breach details. No specific attack vector, data types, or affected individual counts are explicitly stated in the HTML body.