HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of April 9, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- California Correctional Health Care Services, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- April 9, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9362, row:501)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), California Correctional Health Care Services, reported that a workforce member sent an unencrypted email containing the protected health information (PHI) of 4,105 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, diagnoses, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach, the CE retrained workforce members to better protect PHI.