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 Jan. 21, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- County of Kings, State of California, CA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- Jan. 21, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11651, row:2790)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), County of Kings, State of California, reported that a misconfiguration on its public web server resulted in the protected health information (PHI) of 16,590 individuals appearing on the Internet. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, and COVID-19 information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its workforce members to better protect its PHI.